Israel rejects Palestinian terms for talks [07/29/10] "Israel has once again hampered efforts to resume the long-stalled direct peace negotiations by refusing to meet the conditions set by Palestinians. [...]"   

Israel destroys a whole Negev Village, 200 Children left Homeless [07/28/10] "Early this morning police raided the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib in the Negev desert, destroyed all 40 of its houses, and evicted more than 300 residents. The residents, mostly children, were left homeless. The unprecedented raid began at about 4:30 in the morning, residents were surprised to wake up surrounded by a huge force of 1,500 police with guns, stun grenades, helmets and shields, including hundreds of Special Riot Police (Yasam) as well as mounted police, helicopters and bulldozers. [...]"   

Israel violates Lebanon's airspace [07/26/10] "Israeli warplanes have once again violated Lebanon's airspace flying at a low altitude in the country's southern sector, Lebanon army says. The army said its anti-aircraft batteries opened fire on the Israeli 'MK' type reconnaissance planes on Sunday, forcing it to retreat. Israeli warplanes violate Lebanon's airspace almost on a daily basis, which is in clear violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 that ended Israel's 33-day war in 2006 against Lebanon. The Israeli military faced fierce Hezbollah resistance and was eventually forced to vacate Lebanon without achieving any of its objectives. Lebanon marked the fourth anniversary of Israel's assault on the country on July 12 that killed over 1,200 Lebanese, many of them women and children. [...]"   Related: Possible Israeli attack against Lebanon this autumn "In Lebanon, over the past three weeks, danger signs have escalated amid considerably heightened tension. [...]" 

Israel Braces Itself for a UN Fact Finding Mission [07/26/10] "Israel faces another disastrous report as an 'Independent and impartial' fact-finding team appointed by the UN Human Rights Council will look into Israel's 'violations of international law' during her commando raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish ship. Seemingly the UN Human Rights Council wasn’t overwhelmingly impressed by Israel's own ‘truth finding’ missions. I guess that this is understandable. The Israelis should accept the UN concerns. It is very uncommon to let the murderer or the rapist investigate himself. [...]"  

Israelis dump toxic waste over vital water supply for the region [07/25/10] "An Israeli company – The Ma’ale Adumim Planning and Development Company Ltd has been managing the Abu Dis landfill, near the neighborhood of Abu Dis, since 1998. The site receives waste from Jerusalem and the surrounding localities. The 430-dunam site receives huge amounts of waste every day, from Jerusalem, Ma’ale Adumim and the surrounding localities. This same company is also vigorously selling off industrial land development which also sits over the top of the water aquifers that are so vital to the region. The combination of the landfill site and industrial development over such a precious resource will have devastating effects on the population. When both landfill waste and industrial run off are added together the toxic plumes that radiate out from such locations will not only contaminate the public water supply but will also eventually be picked up by submersible pumps that water vast tracts of agricultural land. [...]" 

 Commentary: Israeli Racism & Political Police [07/26/10] "Mahmud Gnayem's cousin, Waji Ghanaim, who arrived at the scene shortly after the shooting, said that the car was parked on the side of the road at the time of the shooting, meaning the victim couldn’t have been running away from the police. The victim wasn’t armed, yet Mizrahi shot him to death. In 2009, Mizrahi was sentenced to a mere 15 months in prison. He appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court, and said there that the shooting was intentional and that his life was not in danger during the event. Yet, he insisted he acted out of self-defense. For being illogical, his sentence was doubled to 30 months in July 2010. Yet, this is dirty cheap for a cold blood assassination. During all this time, Mizrahi hadn’t been relieved from his duties as policeman. Isn’t this entire event a bit strange? [...]"     

Concepts and Practices:  Israelis: "Jews must breed with Jews only to keep the chosen race pure or face prison" [07/23/10] [3:37]  "Rassenschande" In Israel; Arab Jailed After Having Sex With Jewish Woman "He didn't warn her first that he wasn't jewish, so now he lands in jail. What a racist disgrace Israel has seemingly become. In Nazi germany having sex with a Jew was "Rassenchande" or "race-defilement" and a criminal offence. Today in Israel do Jews seemingly have a similar attitude but now for Arabs? A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape ‘by deception’ after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be a fellow Jew. Sabbar Kashur, 30, who had introduced himself as Daniel, was only charged with the offence when she later realised he was an Arab. A court in Jerusalem made international legal history by jailing the delivery driver for 18 months despite acknowledging it had not been ‘a ‘a classical rape by force’... [...]"    Related:   Ex Post Facto Race-Based "Rape By Deception"  [07/22/10] "A 30-year-old Arab man convicted of "rape by deception" is considering an appeal to Israel's High Court of Justice, his lawyer says. Sabbar Kashur had consensual sex with a woman after he posed as a Jewish bachelor interested in a long-term romantic relationship, Haaretz reported Thursday. When the woman learned Kashur was an Arab she filed a police report that led to charges of rape and indecent assault. Kashur was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison after being under house arrest for nearly two years. [...]" Note: Yeah they're big on bending reality to suit their mindset in the moment .... ironically, the Jewish woman now becomes an 'anti-semite', so I guess she can go hate herself and guard herself against marauding 'semites', if there are any left. In the end, she dies a lonely woman,  and the guy won't ever see a happy day again.

 U.S. Politics: "David Duke Exposes Senator Schumer" [07/21/10] [10:00]   "Dr. David Duke exposes Senator Chuck Schumer's support of Israeli terrorism. David Duke shows how Sen. Schumer is clearly guilty of violation of the Patriot Act and should be indicted under its provisions. The former member of the House of Representatives in Louisiana also shows how the extremist Zionists have so much power in American media and politics Israel can practically get away with anything. Murdering thousands of men, women and children, mass torture, ethnic cleansing, massacres such as Sabra and Shatilla, shooting down a civilian airliner, the peace flotilla murders, and even terrorist acts against the United States.  [...]"    

Sayanim — Israeli Operatives in the U.S. [07/21/10] "To date, America has blinded itself even to the possibility of such a trans-generational operation inside our borders and imbedded inside our government. Instead the toxic charge of “anti-Semitism” is routinely hurled at those chronicling the “how” component of this systemic treason. Making this treason transparent is essential to restore U.S. national security. That transparency may initially appear unfair to the many moderate and secular Jews who join others appalled at this systemic corruption of the U.S. political system. Yet they are also concerned that somehow they may be portrayed as guilty by association due to a shared faith tradition. That would be not only unjust to them but also ineffective in identifying and indicting those complicit. This much is certain: a Democrat as president offers no real alternative to a Republican on those issues affecting U.S. policy in the Middle East. [...]"   

 Israel: Uri Avnery: A Parliamentary Mob [07/19/10] "When I was first elected to the Knesset, I was appalled at what I found. I discovered that, with rare exceptions, the intellectual level of the debates was close to zero. They consisted mainly of strings of clichés of the most commonplace variety. During most of the debates, the plenum was almost empty. Most participants spoke vulgar Hebrew. When voting, many members had no idea what they were voting for or against, they just followed the party whip. That was 1967, when the Knesset included members like Levy Eshkol and Pinchas Sapir, David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan, Menachem Begin and Yohanan Bader, Meir Yaari and Yaakov Chazan, for whom today streets, highroads and neighborhoods are named. In comparison to the present Knesset, that Knesset now looks like Plato’s Academy. [...]" 

 Commentary: Does Event Honoring Israeli Spy Suggest Another Israeli Operation? [07/17/10] "Less than two weeks prior to the mass murder of September 11, 2001, the Israeli government made a $1 million grant to Israeli super-spy Jonathan Pollard. In retrospect, the facts suggest that grant may well have served as a signal to Israeli operatives inside the U.S.  On July 13, 2010, in observance of Pollard’s 9000th day of incarceration, the Jerusalem municipality dimmed the lights illuminating the Old City. This gesture of Israeli solidarity included a projection onto the darkened walls of a message urging that President Obama release their spy from prison. Thus the concern among knowledgeable intelligence operatives that this Pollard commemoration may mean that another Israeli operation is underway. On March 4, 1987, this Israeli-American was sentenced to life imprisonment for conveying to Israel more than 1 million classified U.S. military documents. Tel Aviv passed those secrets on to Moscow. In practical effect, this Israeli espionage jettisoned not only America’s Cold War defense strategy, it also jeopardized the entirety of NATO’s defense posture. From 1948 to 1989, U.S. taxpayers invested $20 trillion in Cold War-related defense (in 2010 dollars). In practical effect, an Israeli spy operation negated those outlays. Following Pollard’s arrest in 1986, Israel repeatedly assured U.S. leaders that he was part of a rogue spy operation. Not until 12 years later did Tel Aviv concede the obvious: Pollard was an Israeli spy the entire time. According to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, “[It is] difficult to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by…Pollard’s treasonous behavior.” [...]"    

Netanyahu Brags About How Easy It Is To Manipulate The United States [07/17/10] Note:  Background: Netanyahu is visiting the home of a woman who just lost her husband, and she is being cheered by five other widows. There’s a young boy present, and Netanyahu asks (at about 3:00) that they turn off the camera so he can speak to them “freely”. The camera gets turned on again in mid-conversation.  Transcript in English is on article page: "Especially today, with America. I know what America is. America is something that can easily be moved. Moved to the right correction. They won’t get in our way. They won’t get in our way. So let’s say they say something. So they said it! They said it! 80% of the Americans support us. It’s absurd. We have that kind of support and we say “what will we do with the…” look. That administration was extremely pro-Palestinian. I wasn’t afraid to maneuver there. I was not afraid to clash with Clinton. I was not afraid to clash with the United Nations. I was paying the price anyway, I preferred to receive the value. Value for the price..."

Israel 'using PKK to silence Turkey' [07/17/10] "Israel fosters destabilizing acts of terror against Turkey as a means of silencing Ankara's opposition to policies adopted by Tel Aviv, a political analyst says. [...]"  

IDF put Arsenic in detained Gaza flotilla volunteer's food [07/13/10] [1:27]  "Malaysian Volunteer to Gaza claimed Arsenic poisoned on food by Israel military. [...]"  Note: The Israelis are beneath contempt.  

 Israel: "Jewish Paradise’s Empty Husks" Roy Tov [07/12/10] "In a room thick with cigars’ smoke, the faces were hardly discernible. The late hour didn’t help to the task, but it didn’t matter much. The participants knew each other well; after all, the group was small and included a few prominent rabbis, politicians and main members of the Warring Family. Out of politeness, even N.B. had been invited. Despite his awful Hebrew which sounds as translated English – after all he spent much of his life working for the Americans – he was a popular demagogue which could get surprising responses from the Israeli public. The meeting didn’t take place in a government facility; those are too monitored. It didn’t take place in Jerusalem; the citizens there are too suspicious and would have recognized most of the participants. Secular Tel Aviv was perfect for the gathering. The mysterious Masonic Lodge near Rabin Square provided the perfect cover: it was large and no passersby looked inside.  ”Tam Venishlam, it’s all over,” a rabbi said.  [...] N.B. was worried. Nothing looked right. His talent for convincing the masses of foolish voters wouldn’t be enough under the circumstances. People were losing their trust in the IDF. In the last years there was not even one significant victory. The Second Lebanese War had been won by the Hezbollah, Operation Cast Lead ended in disgrace for the entire people; now they were officially terrorists in the eyes of the world. Gaza’s Freedom Flotilla was a nightmare; the IDF had murdered innocents in front of the international media cameras. His Minister of Defense was an inept. In a recent show of stupidity, the last ordered the sealing of the windows of Arabs' homes in the way to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, so that Jewish worshipers would enjoy a shorter route. How was he supposed to explain that? The West Bank Wall was sealing off Israel, instead of the Palestinians. N.B. was quiet, there was nothing he could say. S. S. – a prominent member of the Warring Family - was also quiet. The Mossad fiasco in Dubai was worrying... [...]  "  Note: This piece seems to be indicative of the current political situation in Israel.

 Israel:  IDF officer indicted on charges of sexually harassing thousands of underage girls [07/12/10] "He asked some of the girls to turn on a webcam and instructed them on how to touch their bodies while he watched. In two cases, Nahum is suspected of blackmailing 12-year-old girls with threats that he would post nude photos of them online if they didn't comply with his demands – turn on a camera and do as instructed. [...]"  

Commentary: Evil States Remain Evil, Even If They Excel In High-Tech [07/11/10] "It seems that the mental depravity of some Zionist Jews has no limits. We observe, for example, that unlike many other peoples, Zionists don’t miss an opportunity to brag about “the exceptional power of the Jewish mind,” the disproportionately high number of Jewish Nobel laureates, the large number of Jewish inventors, and the Israeli genius of making the desert bloom.!  I once asked a Zionist supremacist why, of all peoples, Zionist Jews, constantly brag about their “intelligence” while other peoples who even outmatch Jews, e.g. French, English, Russians, or Germans, don’t do that. I also asked him why he thought the “super Jewish intellect” couldn’t save European Jewry from Hitler’s incinerators. The Zionist supremacist prevaricated left and right for a few moments before throwing the anti-Semitism charge at me. He said the questions I posed shouldn’t be asked in the first place since it reflected deeply-held Judeophobia. A few days ago, a Zionist supremacist, who seemed thoroughly convinced that “Jewish genes” are qualitatively superior to non-Jewish genes, (is there such a thing as Jewish genes, or Christian genes or Muslim genes?), wrote that the world would be committing self-immolation if it decided to boycott Israel in protest against its Nazi-like policies toward the Palestinian people. He indulged in a long tirade about Jewish ingenuity, claiming that boycotting Israel would really rob Gentiles around the world of Jewish- invented items that are essential to modern life such as computers, TV sets and cellular phones! Well, I didn’t really want to argue with him. How can you argue with such a sick mind?  In the final analysis, technological inventions alone don’t make a nation great. Nazi Germany, imperial Japan, and fascist Italy, to give a few examples, were technologically and scientifically advanced, but this didn’t prevent them from sinking in a sea of moral darkness.  [...]"   

Israel: A Failing Colonial Project [07/11/10] "Increasingly, despite its early military and political successes, Israel cannot for long endure as a colonial project. It must choose between wars – and destruction – or transition to a state for all its peoples. In order to firmly secure its existence – as firmly as that is possible for any state – a settler state has to overcome three challenges. It has to solve the native problem, break away from its mother country, and gain the recognition of neighboring states and peoples. It can be shown that Israel has not met any of these conditions. Consider Israel’s native problem. In 1948, in the months before and after its creation, Israel appeared to have solved its native problem in one fell swoop. It had expelled 80 percent of the Palestinians from the territories it had conquered. In addition, with the rapid influx of Arab Jews, Palestinians were soon reduced to less than ten percent of Israel’s population. [...]"   

Israeli Border Police Destroy Vegetable Fields in Al Baqa'a Valley [07/08/10]  [3:56] "Israeli border police hired Israeli Arab workers to remove irrigation pipes from vegetable fields in Al Baqa'a Valley and cut twines holding tomato plants up. The border police used tear gas to prevent Palestinian land owners from going to their fields to stop the destruction. Over 100 Palestinians were affected by this destruction. [...]"  Note: Criminal terrorism on the part of the Israelis. I will be so glad to see all of this over with.

Battle With Mental Illness:  Book about killing gentile children becomes 'bestseller' in Israel [07/08/10] "A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel. “It is permissible to kill the Righteous among non-Jews even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement in the occupied West Bank, wrote in his book “The King’s Torah.”  He argues that goyem (a derogatory epithet for non-Jews) may be killed if they threaten Israel. “If we kill a Gentile who has sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments – because we care about the commandments – there is nothing wrong with the murder.” [...]"  Note: This guy is obviously insane ... except to some Israelis. That this factor is even IN a society anywhere is a disturbing thing. 

Flashback: How Did Mossad Know the 7/7 London Bombings Were Going to Happen? [07/07/10] "...the Mossad office in London received advance notice about the attacks, but only six minutes before the first blast [...]"  Related: The 7/7 London Bombings: How to Set Up a Patsy " ...Today we were running an exercise for a company—bear in mind now that I'm in the private sector—and we sat everybody down in the city—1000 people involved in the whole organization—with the crisis team. And the most peculiar thing was it was we based on a scenario of simultaneous attacks on a underground and mainline station. So we had to suddenly switch an exercise from fictional to real. And one of the first things is, get that bureau number, when you have a list of people missing, tell them. And it took a long time— ..."

Israel plans 2700 new settlements [07/06/10] "Israeli settlement councils plan to build 2700 new settlements in the West Bank immediately after the existing settlement freeze on September 27. [...]"  Note:  Another advance provocation. Gaza: 95% of Factories Are Closed, 93% Of Water Is Polluted  

Bibi Back at the White House — The Consistency of Israeli Duplicity Comes Ever More Clearly in Focus [07/06/10] "With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting the White House July 6th, it’s time to recall how Tel Aviv deceived Washington throughout the entirety of the U.S.-Israeli relationship. [...]"    

'Israel trying to block U.S.-Saudi Arabia defense contract' [07/04/10] "Israel is trying to prevent a big defense contract between the United States and Saudi Arabia from going through, a senior defense source told Haaretz. The deal includes the purchase of scores of new F-15 fighter jets and the upgrading of the 150 F-15s already in the Saudi air force. The source said Israel expressed a number of reservations to the Americans over the past month, and the issue is expected to come up in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meetings in Washington on Tuesday. [...]"  

U.S. Gives Israeli Spy Asylum  [07/04/10] [3:56]  "Homeland Security drops push to deport Mosab Hassan Yousef, convicted of spying for Israel, because he would be killed, as being a former member of Hamas.

Fatah accuses Hamas of torture [07/04/10] "Fatah officials accused Hamas of torturing Fatah activists in Gaza during the weekend in the largest offensive against Fatah in months. [...]"  Note: Israeli plan: Keep them fighting amongst themselves in Gaza. Related:  Commentary: Hamas as a Creation of Mossad [06/10/10] "Thanks to the Mossad, Israel's "Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks", the Hamas was allowed to reinforce its presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, Arafat's Fatah Movement for National Liberation as well as the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression and intimidation Let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas. According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)". [...]"   

Commentary: The myth of Israeli morality [07/03/10] "Israeli claims that Turkish activists "resisted" its takeover of the ships do not change the reality that the Israeli army performed an illegal armed operation against activists who challenged the siege of Gaza - not with weapons, but by trying to deliver food and medical supplies to the besieged Palestinian population. [...]"  

 Discussion: "Why are so many Israelis arrested over illegal arms deals worldwide?" [07/01/10] "At least seven Israeli arms dealers are currently in jail in four countries - the United States, Russia, France and Britain - on charges of illegal arms dealing. Some of them are also suspected of crimes such as forgery, bribery, money laundering and violating UN Security Council embargoes. Such arrests are briefly covered in Israel and then forgotten. But they have a cumulative effect that is very damaging to Israel's image, or what remains of it. [...]"   

Commentary: To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks [07/01/10] "The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country’s apartheid system. The campaign culminated in President FW de Klerk’s announcement in February 1990, releasing Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners, and the beginning of constitutional negotiations towards a non-racial and democratic society. [...]"   

Is Israel right to complain that Hamas has denied Red Cross visits to Gilad Shalit? [07/01/10] "The latest Israeli hasbara tactic to combat growing international opposition to Israel's criminal blockade of the occupied Gaza Strip is to complain that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been prevented from visiting the Israeli soldier captured by the Palestinian resistance organization Hamas in 2006 while he was enforcing the military occupation and siege of the Gaza Strip. [...]"  Related: Hamas says Israel deceitful over Gaza [07/01/10] "A top Hamas official says that the Israeli decision to allow civilian goods into the Gaza Strip is aimed at reducing global pressure after its deadly attack on an aid convoy. [...]"   

Hezbollah vows to 'defend Lebanese gas' [07/01/10] "Sources in the country estimated that the "oil bill," meant to organize the drilling and mining of natural resources in Lebanon, will soon be passed by the parliament in Beirut. The said bill was proposed as a response against the local political system after Israeli and international companies announced the discovery of gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea while Israel insists that the fields are well within the bound of its territorial waters. Qassem also addressed the political situation, accusing Washington in an interview with AP of taking a one-sided, pro-Israeli approach to the Mideast conflict. "We have no need to dialogue with the Americans as long as they don't change their stance. They support the country that who plays the role of problem starter in the region." [...]"  Related: 'Israel to take over Lebanon gas by force'   "Israel has threatened to use military force to take the full control of a newly-discovered gas field partly in Lebanese waters in the Mediterranean Sea. [...]" | Gas War: Israel Threatens to Use Force; Lebanon to Respond  "A new kind of war seems to loom in the horizon: the gas war.  While the war of freedom flotillas remains at the top of the headlines as the Israeli enemy is seeking to prevent Lebanese flotillas seeking to break the inhumane siege of Gaza of setting sail, the gas war seems to be, without doubt, the "upcoming war" in the region. [...]" | Israelis allegedly linked to Hezbollah  "An Israeli warrant officer and several Israeli citizens are suspected of working with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the Israeli military said Wednesday. [...]" | 'Hezbollah spies' held in Israel "Israel arrests a soldier and several civilians suspected of spying for Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the army says. [...]"   

Israeli indicted in U.S. for smuggling arms to Somalia [07/01/10] "Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry sources adamantly denied yesterday that they were in any way involved in arms shipments to Somalia. Spokesmen for both ministries were responding to news of the arrest in the U.S. of Hanoch Miller, an Israeli arms merchant, for allegedly illegal arms sales to Somalia, forging documents, money laundering and violating the UN arms embargo on Somalia. A Defense Ministry spokesman said there is a ban on arms sales to Somalia and Miller did not have permission to sell arms there, and even if he had asked in Israel he would not have received such permission. [...]"    

A New Capture of a Mossad Agent in Lebanon [07/01/10] "Lebanese security arrested a newly uncovered Mossad agent who had a sensitive post at “Alpha”, the Lebanese telecommunications sector company. The Lebanese authorities described the capture of the new Mossad agent as a big catch saying that we are in the vanguard of uncovering a very precious treasure in terms of the services and information which was provided during the past 14 years to the Israelis and the Mossad, including information that helped the Israeli army to identify their targets during the criminal war of 2006. [...]"  

'Israel licensed to destroy with impunity' [07/01/10] "Amid "illegal" Israeli plans to destroy Palestinian homes, a former US congresswoman says Tel Aviv has "impunity" for the aggressive efforts of the pro-Israel lobby in the US. [...]"   

Lieberman: "Absolutely no chance for a Palestinian state within next two years" [06/29/10] "An independent Palestinian State is not a possibility in the next two years, Foreign Minister (and former night club bouncer) Avigdor Lieberman said following a meeting with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Jerusalem on Tuesday. "There is absolutely no chance of reaching a Palestinian state before the year 2012," Lieberman said, adding that "one can dream and imagine, but we are far from reaching an agreement." An apparent disagreement broke out between Lieberman and Lavrov during their meeting in Jerusalem over Moscow's increased efforts to include Hamas in Mideast peace talks. [...]"  

Sinking Ship: Israel’s bleak future [06/29/10] "Israel’s botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable of reversing. The attack also highlights the extent to which Israel has become a strategic liability for the United States. This situation is likely to get worse over time, which will cause major problems for Americans who have a deep attachment to the Jewish "state". [...]"  Note: Will they attempt to take the world down with them?

Israeli Government Releases Blueprint For East Jerusalem 'Master Plan' Including Expulsion Of Arabs [06/29/10] "The plan includes the large-scale expulsion of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, to be replaced by Jewish neighborhoods and tourism centers. Even areas that had been previously designated as 'green areas', such as places like Ir David, in order to justify the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in those areas, have been re-designated as Jewish settlements in the new Jerusalem master plan. The plan is subject to a public comment period of 60 days, after which it will go into effect and the Israeli government will implement all parts of the plan. Impacted Palestinians have no say, however, as they are unrepresented in the Israeli government or planning process. [...]" 

To Israel, all opposition is "racism" [06/29/10] "Unbelievable as it may sound, an Israeli official has dubbed any opposition to the expansion of Jewish settlements on annexed Palestinian land in the West Bank as "racist." [...]"   

Erdogan: Turkish Airspace Closed to Israel [06/29/10] "Turkey's prime minister is quoted as saying Monday that his country has closed its airspace to Israeli flights following a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship. [...]"     

Israel spy chief gets boot for bungled hit [06/29/10] "In the fallout from the bungled assassination of a Hamas gunrunner in Dubai in January, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is reported to have refused a request by Meir Dagan, hard-charging director of Israel's Mossad intelligence service, to extend his eight-year tenure.  [...]"  Related: 'Mossad Chief Meir Dagan To Step Down' [06/28/10] "Mossad chief Meir Dagan has been denied another year in his post and will step down in three months' time, [...]"   

The Apparent Rift Between Israel And The U.S. Is A Mirage [06/28/10] "On the surface there seems to be some confusion about Israel’s relationship with the US. On the one hand we have Israel’s Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, yesterday telling Israel’s diplomats in Jerusalem, “Relations are in the state of a tectonic rift in which continents are drifting apart." The remarks mainly refer to Obama’s stance on settlements in the West Bank and building in East Jerusalem. On the other hand, however, we have two countries united in standing against Iran and what seems to be a joint build up of forces in preparation for a confrontation which will involve both the US and Israel. To compound the notion of confusion, at about the same time as Oren is sounding off about relations with the US over the Palestine issue, America’s top military man, Admiral Mike Mullen, is in Israel to confer with Ehud Barak, Israel’s Defence Minister, and Gabi Ashkenazi, Israel’s Chief of Staff, and is telling them that ‘he always tries to see threats and challenges from the Israeli angle”. There is a simple explanation for this apparent contradiction in US policy toward Israel. [...]"  

Israel-US relations rocked by 'tectonic rift' [06/28/10] "Israel's ambassador to Washington says situation has 'moved beyond a crisis that eventually passes'  ... "There is no crisis in Israel-US relations because in a crisis there are ups and downs," he told the diplomats in Jerusalem. "Relations are in the state of a tectonic rift in which continents are drifting apart." His analysis will alarm Israel's political establishment, which is feeling isolated internationally and under intense pressure to take concrete steps over the blockade of Gaza and settlement building in the West Bank. [...]  Netanyahu delivered a robust speech to the Israeli parliament last week, warning that the Jewish state's legitimacy was under attack and criticising the UN and other international bodies for condemning Israeli policies and actions. "They want to strip us of the natural right to defend ourselves. When we defend ourselves against rocket attack, we are accused of war crimes. We cannot board sea vessels when our soldiers are being attacked and fired upon, because that is a war crime. "They are essentially saying that the Jewish nation does not have the right to defend itself against the most brutal attacks and it doesn't have the right to prevent additional weapons from entering territories from which it is attacked," he said."  Note:  All of which is 'spin' on the part of Netanyahu (not his original last name, who came from Poland to live in Israel) 

Member of Israeli flotilla "investigation" has history of terrorism [06/28/10] "Amos Horev, the retired IDF general, former Technion president, and chief booster of the Israeli defense industry, has a rather sordid past that many might find akin to being a terrorist, Israel-style. He is one of three panel members of the Gaza flotilla investigation and this incident, described by the inimitable Tom Segev in a 2002 Haaretz article, should shed light on the type of justice he might mete out in this inquiry: [...]"  

Discussion: An Israeli military base in Saudi Arabia? [06/28/10] "Although Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf disclaimed the news reported in the Times of London according to which Saudi Arabia had opened an air corridor enabling Tsahal to attack Iran, numerous Middle East outlets have indicated that Tsahal is building a military base near Tabuk (on the Jordanian border). It is meant to serve as a support base for airborne troops. If this news were confirmed, it would constitute the first Israeli base on Saudi territory, with all the symbolic weight that it represents. The December 2008 Operation \"Cast Lead\", which aimed to eradicate Hamas from the Gaza Strip, was bankrolled by Saudi funds, although it has never been specified whether they originated from the royal family or from the State itself. [...]"   

Trail of 'targeted killings,' repeated threats stir suspicions of Israeli hand in Arafat's death [06/28/10] "Yasser Arafat's removal was a triumph for Israel. It fulfilled demands for the election of anti-Intifada Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and his associates who "work well with Israel and America," and whose commitment to disarm the Palestinians will enable Israeli land theft for settlements to continue without resistance or reprisal from undefended Palestinians. [...]"   

Israel ‘Plots Tehran Raid’ [06/27/10] "Israel is massing warplanes in the Caucasus for an attack on Iran, it was revealed yesterday. Preparations are underway to launch the military attack from Azerbaijan and Georgia, reports our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej, quoting military sources. Israel was, in fact, training pilots in Turkey to launch the strike and was smuggling planes into Georgia using Turkish airspace, they said. However, Turkey was unaware of Israel’s intention of transferring the planes to Georgia, the sources said. The unexpected crisis between Israel and Turkey following an Israeli commando raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza Strip hit Israeli calculations. Azerbaijan- based intelligence units, working under the cover of technicians, trainers and consultants, have helped with the preparations, the sources said. Military equipment, mostly supplied by the US, was transported to a Georgian port via the Black Sea.  [...]" Note: Another 'announcement', intended to appear as 'trying to influence the Iranians'. However, we know that they're all different members of the same club, so again it is an arranged dog-and-pony show ... wars ... the lack of maturity in all these people is stunningly vast.  

Admiral Mullen arrives in Tel Aviv [06/27/10] "The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, arrived on 27 June 2010 in Tel Aviv. He was welcomed by his Israeli counterpart, General Gabi Ashkenazi (photo), and is expected to meet with Defence Minister Ehud Barack. The purpose of these meetings has not been made public. The United States and Israel have jointly deployed several warships to the Indian Ocean, off the Iranian and Pakistani shores. The Israeli defence system is in disarray following the diplomatic brush with Turkey after 9 Turkish nationals were killed during the Israeli pirate attack against the humanitarian fleet in the Mediterranean. Israel has notified the UN Secretary-General that it would be prepared to use force to prevent the presence in Palestinian territorial waters of the humanitarian vessel that has been chartered by Lebanese women. The Middle East Quartet, which includes the United States, has called on Tel Aviv to exert moderation.  [...]"  

Israeli Foreign Minister Wants Palestinians Stripped of Citizenship and Relocated [06/27/10] "Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister (and former nightclub bouncer) , set out this week what he called a “blueprint for a resolution to the conflict” with the Palestinians that demands most of the country’s large Palestinian minority be stripped of citizenship and relocated outside Israel’s future borders. [...]"  Related:  "Exposing Israel" [6:01] Interesting sequence. Leave volume off to allow more focus on the words and images.

Jewish Clergy Group: Elena Kagan Isn't ‘Kosher’ to Serve on Supreme Court  [06/27/10] "Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is “not kosher”--meaning she is not fit to serve on the court--according to more than 850 Orthodox members of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. That's the term the rabbis used about Kagan in a press release issued Thursday, saying "Elena Kagan is not kosher. She is not fit to sit on this Court--or any court."  Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the alliance, told CNSNews.com on Thursday that "a great deal has been made about the fact that she would be the second Jewish woman on the court, and we want to signal to people across the country that we take no pride in this.”  [...]"  GOP Senator: Elena Kagan Has 'Serious Deficiencies,' Filibuster Is 'Conceivable'   

Israelis, Turkish Jews, and Kurdish Jews Behind Insurgency in Turkey [06/27/10] "Top Turkish government and intelligence sources told WMR in Ankara and Istanbul that Turkish intelligence has obtained evidence that Israeli intelligence is squarely behind repeated Ergenekon “deep state” plots aimed at overthrowing the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including Operations Sledgehammer and Cage. [...]"  

 Israel:  Shin Bet Agent Breaks Protocol to Safeguard Ex-Hamas Operative [06/25/10] "Former Shin Bet agent Gonen Ben-Yitzhak’s given name means protecting, and he is going all-out to shield a Palestinian man from deportation from the United States and, Ben-Yitzhak believes, certain death. [...]"  

Israel To Expel Hamas Politicians From Jerusalem, Could Set Off New Crisis [06/25/10] "Israel's decision to expel four Hamas politicians from Jerusalem threatened to set off a new crisis over the disputed city and could hinder U.S. efforts to restart peace talks. The expulsions of the three Palestinian lawmakers and a former Cabinet minister could start as early as Friday. Israel has not said where they would be sent, but the West Bank is a possible destination. [...]"  Note:  If Israel goes through with the expulsions, it will almost certainly complicate U.S. attempts to restart direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. For now, a U.S. envoy is shuttling between the two sides, but Abbas insists he won't resume direct talks until Israel freezes all settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories it captured in the 1967 Mideast War.    

Gas War: Israel Threatens to Use Force; Lebanon to Respond [06/25/10] "A new kind of war seems to loom in the horizon: the gas war.  While the war of freedom flotillas remains at the top of the headlines as the Israeli enemy is seeking to prevent Lebanese flotillas seeking to break the inhumane siege of Gaza of setting sail, the gas war seems to be, without doubt, the "upcoming war" in the region. [...]"    'Israel to take over Lebanon gas by force' [06/26/10] "Israel has threatened to use military force to take the full control of a newly-discovered gas field partly in Lebanese waters in the Mediterranean Sea. [...]"   

 Israel: Likud committee votes in favor of resuming settlement construction [06/25/10] "Netanyahu did not participate in the Likud Central Committee meeting, where right-leaning sections of the party called for a vote on a proposal to bolster settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. [...]"  Note: A continuing provocation ... 

Turkey cancels water sales to Israel [06/25/10] "Following the attacks on the Freedom Flotilla in which 9 Turkish citizens were killed, Turkey has decided to continue severing ties with Israel by canceling the agreement it signed in 2000 to supply Israel with water for a 20 year period. [...]"  Note: This will make Israel's drive to capture Lebanons water sources, like the River Litani, and accelerate things.  For Israel, who is already screwing internally with the Turks, this is like an existential act of war.

Political Theatrics: Palestinians Versus The Samson Option Blackmail [06/24/10] "Zionist-awakening scenario: “In one Israeli Jews come to their senses and accept that their best and actually only hope for a future with security and peace is the One State solution – a single, democratic state in which all of its citizens, Jews and Arabs, would have equal civil and political rights.” Armageddon scenario: “In the other foreseeable end-game scenario….. The anti-Israel outrage of citizens of all faiths and none around the world would be such that the governments of the major powers, including the one in Washington D.C., would be obliged to punish the Zionist state with boycott, sanctions and divestment” In which case the zionists threaten the world to take it down with them if they go down. [...]"    Related: Flashback: Israeli Professor: ’We Could Destroy All European Capitals’ "An Israeli professor and military historian hinted that Israel could avenge the holocaust by annihilating millions of Germans and other Europeans. Speaking during an interview which was published in Jerusalem Friday, Professor Martin Van Crevel said Israel had the capability of hitting most European capitals with nuclear weapons. “We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.” [...] Asked if he was worried about Israel becoming a rogue state if it carried out a genocidal deportation against Palestinians, Creveld quoted former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan who said “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” Creveld argued that Israel wouldn’t care much about becoming a rogue state. “Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that this will happen before Israel goes under.”"  Note:  And they would, too. Related: Israel aims its nuclear warheads at Europe " ... The author of The Transformation of War forcefully stated that, as of now, there are already nuclear warheads aimed against Rome and other European capitals that render the threat credible and the "transfer" of the Palestinians possible. [...]" 

Israel Vows To Tighten Gaza Blockade – U.S. Media Reports Blockade Eased [06/24/10] "Black is white, down is up. While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to tighten the blockade against Gaza, the castrated corporate media in the U.S. is reporting that Israeli restrictions are being eased.... [...]"     

Israel selling weapons to Azerbaijan fuels possibility of new war [06/24/10] "A dangerous pattern is emerging in the Caucasus with new reports that Israel is continuing to sell advanced military armaments to Azerbaijan, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, said Jirair Haratunian, former Chairman of the Armenian Assembly of America Board of Directors, in a column entitled "Dangerous Endorsement: More Israeli Military Arms sold to Azeris as Jewish lobby backs Azerbaijan," the Assembly told PanARMENIAN.Net. The commentary continues, “These military sales are an incendiary fuse in a volatile South Caucasus where a startled world just witnessed a short bloody war between Russia and Georgia and where Moscow’s recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia has altered the geopolitical landscape in the region, perhaps permanently. [...]"   

 UK: Knesset comes to Westminster: UK Conservatives talk same bollox as Israel’s Regev [06/24/10] "Stuart Littlewood demonstrates the depth to which Israel’s stooges in the British parliament, the Conservative Friends of Israel, are prepared to stoop while whoring for Israel. He quotes extracts of their speeches in a recent parliamentary “debate” in which the Zionist fifth columnists defend Israel’s murder of peace activists on board the Freedom Flotilla and its criminal siege of Gaza. [...]"   

Social Terrorism:  Barriers, Borders, and Blockades: Policing Movement and Controlling Information [06/23/10] "To keep some out. To fence others in. To police movement, instill fear, uncertainty, and instability. Palestine is a land cross-hashed with separation barriers, walls, fences and checkpoints. For many people, these structures make one either an exile or a prisoner, barred from returning or unable to leave. But in addition to the policing of movement, these mechanisms correspond to a policing of information, a control of what truths are able to travel beyond the borders of these territories, to reach the world outside. [...]"  

[How a Mossad Agent Went About Getting A German Passport] [06/23/10] "A man walked in to the interior ministry in Cologne, Germany on June 16, 2009, and claimed that he was Michael Bodenheimer, an Israeli citizen, descended of a German family that had been persecuted by the Nazis.  He applied for German citizenship, saying he wished to leave Israel and emigrate to Germany. He presented documents, including his parents' German marriage certificate, said he lived in the community of Liman and also gave an address in Herzliya. The documents must have been convincingly authentic, and two days later, in a model of bureaucratic efficiency that seems atypical (even for Germany), the passport had been issued. [...]"  Note:  ISRAEL: Journalist describes strange twists of 'German' suspect in Dubai hit

Accused Mossad assassination attempt on Erdogan [06/23/10] "Jordanian newspaper reported that the Turkish security apparatus was able to thwart an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and noted that the lines of inquiry lead to the involvement of the Israeli intelligence agency "Mossad." [...]"  

WSJ defends Israel’s deadly apartheid politics [06/22/10] "Who should be surprised that the media group named for the biggest curse in America is decidedly pro-Israeli? Why would anyone fall over in shock that the Wall Street Journal laments the role of the killer, while demonizing those who simply seek world peace? Their newest article, ‘Israel and the Surrender of the West’ tears into the notion of “world opinion” as if a global view is some kind of liability. ..." Note:  but then what would you expect?

Israel:  Proposed Law Would Make Supporting Economic or Academic Boycott of Israel a 'Crime' [06/22/10] "Twenty-five members of the Knesset have introduced a bill which, if passed, will make it an offence for any organization or citizen to call for an economic or academic boycott of Israel. The bill will affect those who launch, encourage or provide assistance and information on the boycott of Israel, whether they live in Israel or abroad. Anyone violating the law will have to provide compensation to those affected by the boycott. Initiated by the Land of Israel lobby, the bill has been approved by members of different parties, including the Likud and Kadima parties, and the 10 chairs of Knesset commissions. [...]"  Note: Control freaks, terrified ... that someone may be 'offended' by their 'offenses' and say something ... so they continue to try and suppress the experience of others ... in an attempt to satiate their warped, sadistic and perverse lifestyles which depend on victimhood and punishment.

A 15-year-old Palestinian boy reports being sexually assaulted during interrogation [06/22/10] Note: This goes on all the time in Israel. They have thousands of kids locked up.

Commentary: "Freeman: Israel is useless to US power projection" [06/22/10] "Washington has made Israel our largest recipient of foreign aid, encouraged private transfers to it through unique tax breaks, transferred huge quantities of weapons and munitions to it gratis, directly and indirectly subsidized the Israeli defense industry, allocated military R&D to Israeli rather than US institutions, offered Israeli armaments manufacturers the same status as US manufacturers for purposes of US defense procurement, etc.. Almost all US vetoes at the United Nations and decisions to boycott international conferences and meetings have been on behalf of Israel. [...]" 

 Israel: Arab-Israeli Parliamentarian Fights Death Threats [06/21/10] ""I stopped counting after I had received 50 death threats. I told my secretary not to tell me about them any more," Arab-Israeli Knesset (parliament) member, Haneen Zoabi told IPS.  "As a result of the death threats I’ve been given personal body guards both within the Knesset and outside," adds Zoabi. Zoabi, a member of the Arab-Israeli political party Balad, was on board the ‘Mavi Marmara’, part of the Free Gaza (FG) flotilla, when it was attacked by Israeli commandos in international waters as it tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza several weeks ago. [...]" Israel wants Turkish PM out of office   "An Israeli minister has called for the removal of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has condemned the deadly Israeli attack on an aid flotilla, from office. "The Turkish people aren't the enemy, but Erdogan is Israel's enemy," Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov was quoted by the Israeli daily, Ha'aretz as saying on Saturday. [...]"    

Israel's new propaganda: "OK to kill Turks because 'Ottoman Empire trying to come back'" [06/19/10] "The Return of the Ottomans. The sick man of Europe is back and causing ­trouble again.  [...]"   

A Brooklyn-Israel "connection" suspiciously 'suicides' [06/19/10] "Obstfeld, 55, who traveled in powerful international circles and ran the Central Park South investment firm LH Financial, had a low profile - but a host of entanglements.  He made headlines in an ugly fight for control over a Brooklyn condo project. He was feuding with a powerful rabbi in a rent dispute. And his Austrian business partner landed in legal hot water just yesterday in a bribery scandal involving Israeli icon Ariel Sharon. Shady business pals: Billionaire Martin Schlaff, a business tycoon from Vienna whose tentacles reach from Russia to Cyprus to the Middle East, was recommended for indictment by Israeli cops on charges of slipping Sharon, then prime minister, a $3 million bribe in 2002. [...]"   

Frontiers of Mental Health:  Israeli Sect members charged with abusing children to 'protect them' [06/16/10] "According to the indictment, sect leader, Shay Abramov instructed members to physically abuse their children, in what he called a "treatment" against accidents and illnesses, so to save their lives and prevent their souls from going to hell. [...]"  Related: Haredim plan mass protest following Emanuel ruling  "Ultra-Orthodox public seeks police approval for rally in Jerusalem's Yirmiyahu bridge in order to escort to prison parents from Emanuel who refuse to obey High Court ruling and send daughters to school with Sephardic students [...]"  

Court: Israelis suspected in 'Nigerian scam' can be extradited to U.S. [06/16/10] "Seven Israelis are suspected of scamming tens of millions of dollars from U.S. pensioners in a so-called Nigerian scam over the course of four years.  [...]"  

Israeli Deputy FM: "75 al-Qaeda Mercenaries on Aid Ship" [06/15/10] "Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon appeared on CNN’s “GPS” show today, and once again changed the official story related to the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara aid ship two weeks ago. Ayalon now claims that 75 al-Qaeda linked mercenaries were on board the ship, heavily armed, and that they ambushed the Israeli troops before their eventual capture.  Last week Israel’s official story was that 50 members of the Turkish military were on board the ship, armed with assault rifles. It is unclear if Ayalon’s 75 al-Qaeda are in addition to the 50 Turkish troops or not. The 50 troops were themselves a revision from the initial story that the crew attacked them with makeshift bats.  In either case Israel’s claims don’t hold up to even casual scrutiny, as neither the assault rifles nor the arms, nor the Turkish soldiers nor the al-Qaeda members, were found on board the ship.  In fact Israel has already released every single person who was on board the aid ship, and none was charged with a single crime. One would imagine Israel, which styles itself as the central front in the war on terror, would have had the presence of mind to detain 75 members of al-Qaeda if indeed their military had captured them.[...]"  Note:  The Israelis are clearly delusionary and psychopathic.

Commentary: Henry Siegman on Israel's Greatest Loss: Its Moral Imagination [06/14/10] "If a people who so recently experienced such unspeakable inhumanities cannot understand the injustice and suffering its territorial ambitions are inflicting, what hope is there for the rest of us? "    Henry Siegman, one of the elder statesmen of American Jewry, who served as national director of the American Jewish Congress from 1978-1994, and now runs the U.S./Middle East Project, penned a devastating expose of Israel's moral degeneration in the Friday, June 11 edition of Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper. [...]"    

Israel: strategic ally or liability for the USA? [06/13/10] "Stephen Sniegoski debunks the arguments that Israel is a strategic US asset, advanced by Israel lobbyists such as billionaire chief editor of US News & World Report Mort Zuckerman, and argues that Israel is in fact a significant political, military and strategic liability for the United States. [...]"  

Israeli minister cancels trip to weapons fair in France after French activists threaten lawsuit [06/13/10] "Ehud Barak, the Israeli Defense Minister, canceled a trip to an arms trading fair in France at the last minute, after French survivors of the Israeli attack on a humanitarian aid mission two weeks ago said they plan to file a lawsuit against the state of Israel for war crimes. [...]"  

Saudis Deny Report They Will Allow Israeli Planes Over Country [06/13/10] "Saudi Arabia on Saturday denied a report in the London Times that it had given Israel “clear skies” to attack Iran. According to the report, Saudi Arabia was testing its radar and defense equipment in order to partially disable defenses, in order to allow Israeli planes to fly over Saudi airspace in the event of an attack against Iranian nuclear facilities. The report quotes a U.S. security official as saying that 'The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way.' [...]"  Related: State Terrorism: Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites [06/12/10] "Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.  In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran. To ensure the Israeli bombers pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defence systems not activated. Once the Israelis are through, the kingdom’s air defences will return to full alert. “The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way,” said a US defence source in the area. “They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren’t scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [US] State Department.” [...]"     

The Next 9/11-Made in Israel?  [06/12/10] "Citing the possibility of a terrorist organization getting hold of a nuclear weapon as the greatest threat to U.S. security, Barack Obama persuaded 46 other countries at the recent Nuclear Security Summit to agree to secure the world’s loose nuclear material. ...  In a recent Antiwar.com article aptly titled “America’s Loose Nukes in Israel,” Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (Irmep) and author of Spy Trade: How Israel’s Lobby Undermines America’s Economy, shows how “the U.S is a sieve for Israeli nuclear espionage.” The massive arms smuggling network set up by David Ben-Gurion in the United States in the 1940s had acquired a nuclear branch within a decade, according to Smith. The 1955 purchase of the Apollo Steel Company plant in Pennsylvania was financed by David Lowenthal, a close friend of Israel’s first prime minister and a former member of the Haganah, the precursor to the Israeli army.  [...] If, as Benjamin Netanyahu admitted, 9/11 was “very good” for Israel, a nuclear 9/11 might be even better. As the spellbinding effects of that traumatic event nine years ago have begun to wear off, and with Americans increasingly questioning the costs of a one-sided alliance, it may even be considered necessary."  Related: Is Israel Planning Act of Desperation?  "The signature is always the same: help through airports, high quality documents and timed perfectly to advance the Israeli agenda. This time, with two stolen nuclear weapons in play, bombs built by South Africa and Israel available for detonation in a shipping container at any American or European port, we wonder, “Would Israel really go this far?” The stolen nukes are part of the original ten weapons, Uranium-235 based, built by Israel in South Africa. The first one was tested on September 22, 1979 in the Indian Ocean and discovered by an array of sensors and satellites. The Israeli lobby in the US suppressed an American reaction and kept the story out of the press. [...]"  Israel:  Did Israel play a role in 1979 South Africa nuclear test? "In September 1979, a United States intelligence nuclear detonation detection source, a Vela type satellite, which covered the Indian Ocean, detected a flash several hundred kilometers off South Africa's coast.  [...]"   

Commentary: Reid-McConnell Letter on Israel  [06/12/10] "According to a recent poll, 49% of U.S. citizens have been intoxicated by the media. They think that the seige of Gaza is legal and that the humanitarian activists on the Flotilla are to blame for the violence during the raid on the Mavi Marmara. In this context, Senators Reid and McConnell, respectively majority and minority leaders of the Senate, have asked President Obama to use his veto power to prevent the Security Council from creating an international commission of investigation into those events. [...]"  Note: In any decent venue, both Senators would have been arrested and imprisoned, a long time ago.

 Commentary:  Israel’s Embargo is about Economic Warfare, Not Security [06/12/10] "Despite the fact that spokespersons for the Israeli government and military continue to claim that the economic blockade of Gaza is meant to be measures to protect Israel’s “security,” documents obtained from a McClatchy newspaper investigative reporter indicate that the real motive behind the blockade is something else: economic warfare on the people of Gaza. McClatchy obtained the government’s written statement from Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, which sued the government for information about the blockade. The Israeli high court upheld the suit, and the government delivered its statement earlier this year. [...]"   

 Israel: US, France, UK practice aerial strikes in time with feeble sanctions against Iran [06/12/10] "The low deterrent effect of the sanctions against Iran adopted by the UN Security Council Wednesday, June 9 were manifest from the moment they attained Russian and Chinese endorsement. But its passage in New York found US and French bombers in the middle of a unique exercise simulating a marine force attack on ground targets with close air support.  US and French bombers took off from each other’s aircraft carriers, the USS Harry S. Truman and the Charles de Gaulle, while the British planes flew in from their bases in England. Together, they practiced their strike capabilities in a real war. The Canjuers training facility near Toulon stood in for an Iranian target.  Rear Admiral Henri Bobin, commander of the French Fleet Air Arm, said the Charles de Gaulle is seen as a potential deterrent to Iran. Thursday June 10, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and French Defense Minister Hervé Morin were scheduled to visit the French carrier just after it had spent 15 months in dry dock having its nuclear propulsion system refitted and other upgrades performed. French officers say the Charles de Gaulle’ is now “more compatible” with US carriers the adaptation of its steam catapult launch and other systems for take-off and landing. [...]"  Note:  Imagine all the eye-rolling going on in Iran. This report courtesy of Debka files, aka Mossad sayanim.

Israel and the psychology of "never again" [06/10/10] "Why does Israel continue to act against its own interests?  Over the years, and especially since 2006, the Jewish state's deadly, over-the-top military actions in response to provocations from Hamas and Hezbollah — and now from a flotilla ferrying humanitarian aid to Gaza — have backfired. And in each case, the Jewish state has grown less secure by increasing its international isolation and fueling fury much closer to home. [...]" 

Israeli Official Threatens to Kill Turkish PM [06/10/10] "Uzi Dayan, former deputy Chief of General Staff in Israel, says the Jewish state should consider a possible Turkish military escort of Gaza aid ships an act of war. “If the Turkish prime minister joins such a flotilla,” Dayan told Israeli army radio, according to the Jerusalem Post, “we should make clear beforehand this would be an act of war, and we would not try to take over the ship he was on, but would sink it.”   It is unprecedented for a top level state official to threaten a head of another state with murder.  Israel has refused to cooperate with an independent investigation of the incident that resulted in the death of between nine and nineteen activists. The Turkish government remains unequivocal in its condemnation of the action taken by the Israeli Navy. Most of the victims were Turkish citizens.  On June 5, the Turkish PM, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said he is not only planning to dispatch the Navy on the next flotilla, but that he is considering accompanying them personally. Erdogan reportedly raised the idea in conversations with close associates and even informed the United States of his intention to ask the Turkish Navy to accompany another aid flotilla to Gaza. The Americans asked Erdogan to delay his plans because of tensions on the region, the Lebanese newspaper al-Mustaqbal reported on Saturday. Uzi Dayan is the nephew of Moshe Dayan, the fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Defense Minister and later Foreign Minister of Israel. [...]"    

Senior Israeli Army Commander: Turkish Attempt To Break The Siege Would Be “Act of War” [06/10/10] "A senior commander in the the Israeli military has stated that he believes that action taken by the Turkish government in protecting an upcoming flotilla to Gaza would be considered an act of war. Major General (Res.) Uzi Dayan stated, whilst speaking with the army radio station that, "If he [Prime Minister Erdogan] comes here with Turkish warships there can be no doubt that it would amount to a declaration of war. We need to draw a clear line and say that whoever crosses it will not be boarded but sunk." [...]"  Related: Israeli request for more arms from US raises fears of regional violence "Israel has approached the United States for more bombs and asked Washington to increase an emergency arms cache stowed on Israeli soil by 50 per cent, according to the leading newspaper Ha'aretz. The approach, made by Defence Minister Ehud Barak during a recent visit to Washington, reflects the heightened tensions in recent months between the Jewish state and its neighbours that have given rise to widespread fears within Israel of an imminent regional conflict. [...]"  

Commentary: Israel’s cult of victimhood : “Barefoot” soldiers on the high seas [06/10/10] "Jonathan Cook considers the collective psychosis which leads Israelis to view Jews by definition as victims even when they are aggressors and the gentile victims of Jewish violence as Jew-haters set on eliminating the Jews. [...]"  

Israel preparing for prolonged Middle East war [06/10/10] "Israel seems to be preparing for a prolonged war in the Middle East, demanding the United States for more military equipment and a boost of US-held arsenals in Israel.  The requests were brought up during recent visits to Washington by high-ranking Israeli defense officials, and in conversations with senior administration and Congress officials, Haaretz revealed in an article published on its website on Tuesday. Among the requested weapons are US bombs and precision guidance kits, such as Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) that add GPS/INS guidance to bombs. The JDAM kits have been increasingly used by the Israeli air force in recent offensives, including in the 2006 war against Lebanon and the 2008 Gaza war. The priority list is said to indicate that Israel is preparing for the prospects of a long war, which would necessitate an extensive use of the air  force to attack a large number of targets, along with ensuring enough spare parts and supplies. Israel is also seeking to increase the amount of gear held by the American army in their emergency stores in Israel by 50 percent — that is from $800 million to $1.2 billion.  [...]"  

Turkey accused of 'behaving like Iran' by Israel [06/09/10] "The Turkish ruling party AKP was savagely attacked by an unrepentant Israeli government last night, which said it was behaving like Iran and was "wholly to blame" for the deterioration in relations between the two countries. [...]"   

Israel:  Lieberman heads to US to explain Israel's position on flotilla [06/08/10] "Foreign Minister (and former nightclub bouncer) Avigdor Lieberman was set to leave for North America Sunday night to meet with Israeli diplomats, as well as with Jewish communities in the US and Canada, to explain the Israeli government's position on the Gaza flotilla affair. Lieberman and his deputy Danny Ayalon will speak before the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and meet Israeli Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren, UN Ambassador Gabriela Shalev, Ambassador to Canada Miriam Ziv and consul generals stationed throughout the US. [...]" Ambassador Says Israel Will Do 'Whatever It Takes' to Uphold Blockade "Without elaborating on what actions would be taken in the face of a potential Iranian Revolutionary Guard escort of ships to break through the blockade of Gaza Ambassador Michael Oren said the country needed to defend itself. [...]"  

A Glimpse Into Jewish Collective Morbidity Gilad Atzmon [06/07/10] "... The message is clear, the Israelis lost the capacity to self reflect. This is exactly why they are a murderous collective. [...]"  Related: Gilad Atzmon on Israeli collective madness [06/06/10] [8:00] "  Gilad Atzmon, a British writer and musician who was born in Israel and served in the Israeli army, believes that the raid will lead the world to “see what Israel is all about”. “They are convinced that the more people they kill, the more people will be deterred to jeopardize what they regard as their security,” Atzmon told Russia Today (RT) [...]" 'Israel is a Lunatic State' - Finkelstein on Gaza Flotilla Attack " [5:24]  "Political scientist Norman Finkelstein has spoken to RT to give his assessment of Israel's raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. [...]"   

Protesters decry US support for Israel [06/06/10] "Hundreds have gathered in front of the White House, protesting against Washington's support for Tel Aviv, following the deadly Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla. [...]"   

What legitimacy does Israel have? UN recognition of Israel is fatally flawed [06/06/10] "Christopher King argues that beneath Israel’s litany of crimes against the Palestinians, and most recently its murder of humanitarian workers aboard the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla, lies the fact of its own illegality. [...]"    

Commentary: Israel's 'Operation Make The World Hate Us' Enters Bold New Phase [06/06/10] "Israel does not need enemies: it has itself. Or more precisely: it has its government" writes The New Republic's Leon Wieseltier in a bitingly titled column, Operation Make the World Hate Us: The assault on the 'Mavi Marmara' was wrong, and a gift to Israel's enemies. Two notable organizational patrons of Glick's video are the Center For Security Policy and Christians United For Israel. Glick's industrial-strength polemics include claims that there is a "totalitarian jihadist ideology which is ascendant throughout the Islamic world." According to the Jewish organization Jews on First, Glick has advocated the unilateral bombing of Iran. [...]"   

Israel:  Peres: "World always against us" [06/05/10] ""Israel is going through a difficult time, and to my regret there is a structural majority against Israel in the UN," President Shimon Peres said Thursday during a visit to soldiers wounded in the IDF raid on the Gaza flotilla. "It doesn't matter what we do – and of course this is not a majority of justice. There is no way of passing logical and positive resolutions regarding the Middle East with the Arab lobby in the UN," he said. [...]"  Note: The world is only 'against' you because of your behavior, Mr. Victimhood. Stop the sadistic murder of 'innocents' and things may change, in a couple of HUNDRED years. Like many Sequentials, they have no insight into their own behavior.  Israelis subdued captain by pointing gun at a child  "According to a report in The Guardian, an Algerian activist, who gave her name as Sabrina, revealed that Israeli troops pointed their gun at a one-year-old Turkish child in front of his parents to force the captain of the Mavi Marmara to stop sailing. Many reports have emerged from among the 124 activists who crossed over into Amman, Jordan, yesterday. In an interview with Sky News, IT professional Hasan Nowarah, from Glasgow, described the moments as the Israeli troops descended on the ship. [...]"  Note:  It's stuff like this that makes people hate the Israelis ... sadistic darkside behavior ... May they blow themselves up soon. 

 Commentary:  “No citizenship without loyalty!” Fascism in Israeli society [06/05/10] "Neve Gordon detects a disturbing trend in Israeli society, manifested recently in the way pro-government demonstrators reacted to protests by Israeli Jews and Arabs against the murder of peace activists on the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla. [...]"  

Commentary: Is Israel planning act of desperation? It still holds two stolen nukes for possible port attack [06/05/10] "Gordon Duff warns that unless the international community takes decisive action by stripping Israel of its nuclear weapons and demanding regime change in Tel Aviv, the world might soon be subjected to an Israeli-concocted false-flag nuclear disaster. [...]"  Note:  Let's wait and see...  

Netanyahu Meeting in 1990 and the coming of the Jewish Messiah, "Moshiach" [06/05/10] [1:19]  "Knesset Member Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Rabbi Schneerson. "Since we last met many things have progressed. What hasn't changed, however, is that Moshiach hasn't come. There are still a few hours left in the day, so try to bring him today!"  [...]"  Note:  Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (April 5, 1902 OS – June 12, 1994 NS), known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or just the Rebbe among his hasidim,[1] was a prominent hasidic rabbi who was the seventh and most recent Rebbe (hasidic leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. His focus on messianism was controversial and remains polarising within Orthodox Judaism. During his lifetime and even after his death, a portion of his followers have considered him to be the Jewish Messiah, and Chabad Messianists await his return as the Messiah. He led the movement until his death in 1994, greatly expanding its worldwide activities and founding a worldwide network of institutions to spread Orthodox Judaism among the Jewish people.[2] These institutions include schools, kindergartens, synagogues, Chabad houses, and others, and are run under the auspices of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational branch of the Chabad movement. Before Schneerson's death in 1994 a significant body of Chabad Hasidim believed that he was soon to become manifest as the Messiah—an event that would herald the Messianic Age and the construction of the Third Temple. Books and pamphlets were written arguing that the Rabbi was the Messiah.

Irish government expected to expel Israeli diplomat involved in passport forgery [06/04/10] "Top Government officials and the Irish Police have advised the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheal Martin, to expel an Israeli diplomat that they suspect was involved in forging Irish passports for a Mossad hit squad. [...]" 

Israel Can't Get Away With the "Holocaust Victim" Routine Anymore [06/04/10] "Israel is coming under increasingly broad attack for its killing of unarmed civilians attempting to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. The reality is that the Israeli "We can do what we want because we were holocaust victims" operation is a thing of the past. They can't get away with it any more. Everyone can see that the Israelis are committing the same kind of crimes against Palestinians, that were carried out against them. [...]" 

Israel rejects international investigation of raid [06/04/10] "Israel on Thursday rejected calls from the United Nations and others for an international investigation of its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla but left the door open to foreign involvement. Foreign Minister (former nightclub bouncer) Avigdor Lieberman, however, proposed attaching international observers to an internal Israeli probe. [...]"   

Jews worldwide share genetic ties [06/04/10] "But analysis also reveals close links to Palestinians and Italians. [...]"  Note: Oh my!

Turkish Prime Minister To Israel: International Community Is "Sick Of Your Lies" [06/04/10] "Today in a speech to the Turkish parliament, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called Israel out on the carpet over its recent murder of at least 9 peace activists. Erdoğan told Turkish parliamentarians that Israel had "massacred the innocent" and the fact that it treats civilians like terrorists shows that "it knows no boundaries". He said that since the Israeli government uses lying as state policy, the international community should conduct its own inquiry and lawfully punish those responsible. In a clear swipe at the 62-year-old Jewish state, Erdoğan said "Turkey is not a young and rootless country" and that no one should test its patience. He said that the Free Gaza flotilla was carrying "the conscience of humanity" and Israel's actions of "pouring blood and massacring was obviously state terrorism". [...]"  Related: Turkish Premier: "Israel Tries To Justify Itself By Exploiting Anti-Semitism" [06/04/10] ""After recent developments, everyone has seen the fact that Israeli government's hostile attitude terrorizing the region, posed a serious threat against peace and stability in the region. Those hostile policies will not yield any useful results. Israel should scrutinize its policies as soon as possible. We do not have a problem with Jewish people. But the humanity and we have a problem with Israeli administration. I think that Israeli people should give a message to their ruling parties which jeopardized their security and destroyed interests of the country with its reckless policies," he said. [...]" 

Commentary:  “Mad dog” diplomacy: a cornered Israel is baring its teeth [06/04/10] "Jonathan Cook argues that Israel is responding to growing domestic scrutiny of its human rights abuses and increasing international isolation, and to the erosion of its deterrence, by introducing new repressive laws and by branding its critics as supporters of terrorism. [...]"  

Sea blockade of Gaza was “temporary” – 15 years ago [06/04/10] "Stuart Littlewood views a little-mentioned blockade of Gaza: an interim, five-year agreement signed by the Palestinian Authority in 1995 – probably under duress – but still in force, allowing the Israelis “to weave a tangled web of security zoning in Gaza's coastal waters” and leaving them in charge offshore, where there is a massive gas field. [...]" 

Anti-Israeli rallies continue worldwide [06/04/10] "Demonstrators across the world continue to hold protests condemning Israel's fatal attack on a Gaza-bound aid convoy that left several peace activists dead. [...]"   

Opinion:  Israel Looks a Lot Like North Korea [06/02/10] "Be careful, Israel, you're starting to look like "gulp—North Korea," writes Daniel W. Drezner. Israel may not (yet) be in similarly dire financial straits, but the parallels are "pretty eerie" beyond that, writes Drezner in Foreign Policy. Let us count the ways: * "Both countries are diplomatically isolated except for their ties to a great power benefactor."  * "Both countries are pursuing autarkic policies that immiserate millions of people."  * "The majority of the population in both countries seem blithely unaware of what the rest of the world thinks." * "Both countries keep getting referred to the United Nations."  * "In the past month, the great power benefactor is finding it more and more difficult to defend their behavior to the rest of the world." [...]"  

Israeli Navy Official: Next Time Could Be Worse [06/02/10] "we will have to come prepared in the future as if it was a war. Navy prepares for expected arrival of 2 more activist ships."  [...]"  Note:  There you are. We can't have people defending themselves with clubs ... typical Israel disproportional overkill mentality.

State of alert throughout Israel: “Brink of war or new Intifada” [06/01/10] "Israeli police and security forces have raised a state of alert across the country after the attack on a group of ships off the coast of Gaza, leading to at least 19 dead and dozens injured (see Israel attacks ships carrying aid to Gaza. At least 10 dead). An Israeli policeman tells AsiaNews that “We are on the brink of war or a new Intifada.”  Here and there in Israel, particularly in Nazareth, there are demonstrations against the attack on the ships carrying humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, forcing the Israeli blockade on the Strip. Arab organizations have declared a general strike. Security forces have decided to close the Gaza crossings, some roads that communicate with the West Bank and the Temple Mount mosques. The seized vessels (all six) were conducted in the port of Ashdod. There are fears about the fate of a Palestinian leaders from northern Israel, Raed Salah, who was on the attacked ships. At first the news spread that he had been killed in the raid. Palestinian sources now say that he is seriously hurt.  Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority has declared three days of mourning throughout the West Bank and called the Israeli operation a “massacre”.   Israel is also battling the media. MPs and ministers continue to assert that the activists were not at all “peaceful” but waited for the arrival of soldiers carrying weapons (long knives, bats, other instruments of offense). At least six soldiers were wounded, one of whom seriously.  For Israel, ships and humanitarian aid were “a provocation”. The deputy foreign minister, Daniel Ayalon said that before attacking, the Israeli military command ordered the ships to stop several times and agree to land the aid under Israeli control. He also said that the activists on the ship are linked to Hamas and other terrorist organizations.  According to some Israeli analysts, the incident of the Gaza flotilla is likely to further exacerbate the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis, on the brink of a new, third intifada. An Israeli policeman, speaking to AsiaNews, confirmed the risk of a third intifada, but also added: “We are on the brink of war. There is a fear that Hezbollah front in Lebanon could be sparked again and that anti-Israel demonstrations spread throughout the world. ”  Currently there are demonstrations in Turkey, especially Istanbul. The Foreign Ministry urged all Israelis leaving for Turkey to cancel their departure and said he will hold the Ankara government responsible for anything that could happen to Israelis on soil Turkish. [...]"    

Israeli nuclear espionage: the art of keeping America at risk for fun and profit [06/01/10] Note: Gordon Duff views how Israel and its US spies have been stealing, reverse-engineering and peddling American military secrets and technology. 

Turkish Sources - Israeli Advance Target Assassination List Found on Flotilla [06/01/10] "Turkish sources and media revealed a document which shows that a death list had been prepared in advance by the Israelis, showing names and pictures of people on board of the ships to be murdered, who, according to Israel, were “involved in the International humanitarian aid for Gaza”. According to the Turkish sources, hundreds of Israeli soldiers stormed the blue Turkish ship “Marmara” flotilla and they had copies of the death list. The list included the names of civilians on the fleet who should be killed”. The document was apparently recovered after one of the Israeli soldiers lost it during the piracy act." [...]"   

In raw video, reporters claim Israelis fired on activists before boarding ship [06/01/10] "... in raw video captured by an Al Jazeera producer and published to YouTube late Monday, two journalists provide a play-by-play of the harrowing event as pops and cracks echo in the background. Even before the Israeli forces were aboard, one says, they were pelting the boat with tear gas and stun grenades, injuring numerous people. Then he confirms the first death, saying the individual was killed by "munitions," but not specifying whether it was a bullet or something else. Then he confirms that Israeli forces were boarding the ship. [...]"  

Iran narrowly wins UN nuclear battle [05/30/10] "Israel was the big loser in the nuclear review conference in New York - and Iran the big winner. The cause of nuclear non-proliferation was haltingly served in that the conference did reach a consensus, unlike the last time, and a number of watered-down measures were agreed to seek ways of strengthening the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). But overall, there was not the decisive strengthening that some states wanted. Instead, governments rallied round one objective - the concept of a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East. This was first called for 15 years ago but until now neglected. To its annoyance, Israel found that the US did not block a proposal to hold a one-off conference in 2012 on setting up such a zone. In addition Israel was named for not being a party to the treaty and for not having its nuclear activities under international inspection. Being named like this is always regarded as a diplomatic defeat. It will produce further soul-searching about the relationship between Israel and the US administration of President Barack Obama, which has often been tense and which will now be more so. Israel has already denounced the agreement as "hypocrisy". [...]"     

U.S. yields to Arab demand to pressure Israel on nukes [05/29/10] "189 signatories of Non-Proliferation Treaty back a declaration proposing a 2012 conference to discuss banning nuclear weapons from the Middle East. The 28-page Final Declaration was approved by consensus on the last day of the month long conference, convened every five years to review and advance the objectives of the 40-year-old NPT.  Under its action plan, the five recognized nuclear-weapon states - the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China - commit to speed up arms reductions, take other steps to diminish the importance of atomic weapons, and report back on progress by 2014.  The NPT is intended to stop the spread of atomic weapons, though it allowed the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia to keep their arsenals while calling on them to negotiate on disarmament.  The creation of a WMD-free zone would eventually force Israel to declare and abandon its atomic bombs. U.S. officials say such a zone could not be created without Mideast peace.  [...] Israel, which like nuclear-armed India and Pakistan never signed the NPT, is presumed to have a sizable nuclear arsenal but neither confirms nor denies its existence. The Obama administration changed U.S. policy by joining Britain, France, Russia and China in backing a Mideast nuclear conference while encouraging Israel to participate. "We've got a strong draft that would strengthen all three pillars of the NPT - disarmament, non-proliferation and peaceful use of nuclear energy," a diplomat said. Britain's chief delegate, Ambassador John Duncan, told Reuters the draft text was "unprecedented" in its scope.   Related: UN struggles over nuclear treaty [05/28/10] "The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference battles to reach consensus on the wording of a new text. [...]"   

Israel must sign NPT, 189 countries say [05/29/10] "The final statement of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference has called for the establishment of a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East.  The 28-page document, which was agreed upon on Friday by all 189 NPT signatories after a month-long round of talks at UN Headquarters in New York, called for a conference to be held in 2012 "to be attended by all states of the Middle East, leading to the establishment" of a nuclear weapons- free zone in the Middle East. Western diplomats said the United States finally agreed to a deal at the UN that would pressure Israel to join the NPT, Al Jazeera.net reported.  The final statement of the conference emphasized "the importance of Israel's accession to the treaty and the placement of all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) safeguards," the Al Jazeera.net report added.  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also hailed the outcome of the conference.  Most experts say Israel has a nuclear arsenal of at least 200 nuclear warheads.  The US had initially sought to block the provision calling on Israel to sign the NPT. [...]"  Note: Israel is a barrier to a non-Israeli 'new world order' no matter who's defining what that is.

Israel: Lieberman deems Gaza flotilla 'violent' [05/28/10] "Foreign minister says 'there is no humanitarian crisis in Strip,' calls fleet of aid ship en route to Gaza 'an attempt at violent propaganda against Israel.' We will not allow violation of our sovereignty, he adds. (Former nightclub bouncer) Avigdor Lieberman said Friday afternoon that "the flotilla is an attempt at violent propaganda against Israel, and Israel will not allow a violation of its sovereignty at sea, in the air, or on land." Lieberman, who spoke during a visit to the Forgein Ministry's situation room, added, "There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and despite the Hamas leadership's war crimes and rocket fire, Israel is conducting itself in the most humanitarian manner, and is allowing the entrance of thousands of tons of food and equipment to Gaza."  On Thursday, the Israeli Navy prepared for the expected encounter with the aid flotilla making its way to Gaza. IDF sources said they were concerned that terrorists may try to use the "Freedom Flotilla" to enter the Strip or smuggle in weapons. [...]"  Note: This guy is behaving like a delusional sociopath ... not helpful to Israel.  

Israeli Heckler Calls Rahm Emanuel "Anti-Semite" [05/28/10] "White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel got a hot welcome to Jerusalem's Old City Thursday. Arriving to celebrate his son's Bar Mitzvah, President Obama's right-hand-man was heckled by far right-wing Israeli activist Itamar Ben-Gvir. "You are an anti-Semite, a hypocrite who hates Israel!" Ben-Gvir shouted. "You want Israel to return to the 1967 borders. Shame on you!" Many Israelis feel betrayed by Emanuel, whose father is Israeli. They blame him for what they see as President Obama's anti-Israel policy.  [...]"  Note: Well, it's fashion! 

Watching Israel De-legitimize the U.S. [05/27/10] "The United Nations has long been scheduled to review the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to consider the creation of a Middle East free of nuclear weapons. As the date approached, the world community experienced a well-timed torpedo attack on a South Korean warship, allegedly by a North Korean submarine. In the midst of these negotiations, mainstream media has been flooding the national consciousness with power-of-association stories about Iran, its nuclear program and even its links to North Korea. Tehran, of course, was the third member in the trio of Bush-era Evil Doers. News outlets controlled by Israeli-American Rupert Murdoch are particularly active, including Fox News and The Wall Street Journal.  [...]"  Note: What’s behind the sudden crisis in Korea? Who benefits? 

Israel’s bomb out of the shadows: nuclear offer to apartheid regime blows diplomatic cover [05/27/10] "Israel faces unprecedented pressure to abandon its official policy of “ambiguity” on its possession of nuclear weapons as the international community meets at the United Nations in New York this week to consider banning such arsenals from the Middle East. [...]    Related: Israeli nuclear espionage: the art of keeping America at risk for fun and profit [05/27/10] "Gordon Duff views how Israel and its US spies have been stealing, reverse-engineering and peddling American military secrets and technology. [...]"  

Palestinians Dehumanized By Israeli Checkpoints [05/24/10] [5:37]  "This video reminds me of what a FEMA camp would be like. In order to get to work inside Israel Palestinians from the West Bank have to cross several checkpoints. Eyal Checkpoint is the last one. Long lines form in front of the checkpoint from around midnight of workers wishing to get to work on time in the morning. [...]"  Related: Exposé:  Mossad Does Interrogations in Iraqi Jails: Human Rights Group "The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) said on Saturday that Israel's intelligence agency Mossad is interrogating Arab prisoners in Iraqi jails. [...]"  Israeli’s Stealing Food From Palestinians  [2:19] 

Rahm Emanuel plans for son's bar mitzvah party in Occupied Jerusalem [05/20/10] "On one hand, according to ABC News, the site lies within the Old City of Jerusalem, which the United States considers to be occupied territory. US officials are discouraged from spending time there except in an official capacity. [...]"  Note:  Putz.

Top Israeli officer 'commits' suicide [05/20/10] "An Israeli Army spokesman has announced that the body of a high ranking military officer who committed suicide has been found, a report says. [...]"     

Israel "Museum of Tolerance"  [05/20/10] "The so-called Israeli "Museum of Tolerance" slated for construction on the oldest Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem has resulted in the intolerant exhumation of more then 1000 people laid to rest there, Haaretz’s Nir Hasson reported Tuesday.   Related: "Museum of Tolerance" Desecrates Graves   "Rabbi Marvin Hier’s Los Angeles-based Museum of Tolerance, part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is building a $150 million branch in Jerusalem. The Museum, whose mission is confronting “global anti-Semitism, extremism, hate … and promoting unity and respect among Jews and people of all faiths,” is being built atop part of the Mamilla Muslim cemetery, some of whose burials date to the 11th century. The graves, which may contain the remains of soldiers who fought with Saladin against the Crusaders, are being uprooted to make way for Rabbi Hier’s new museum. More than a few commentators, including a number of Israelis and some of Israel’s friends in this country, have argued strongly that a Museum of Tolerance built literally upon the bones of Palestine’s indigenous Arab population is hypocritical, intolerant, and wholly absurd. A case could be made, however, that tearing out centuries-old Muslim graves and replacing them with an American-financed Museum of Tolerance symbolizes Zionist policy and practice toward the Palestinians from the birth of modern political Zionism a century ago down to the present day. [...]"  

The Yudof Doctrine of Berkely: No divestment from Israel until genocide [05/20/10] "University of California President Mark Yudof — who the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has called “an unabashed Israel supporter” and who has previously compared the UC to a cemetery — has weighed in against UC Berkeley’s divestment initiative, laying out a bizarre formula for UC investments that sets the bar so low it would have prevented UC divestment from South Africa during the apartheid era.  Under the Yudof doctrine, the UC Regents would only divest from a foreign country if the United States government had decided that the country had engaged in acts of genocide. Apparently that is the only standard under which Israel can continue to escape scrutiny by the UC Regents. But the policy has implications beyond the Israeli occupation of Palestine, for under this rule the UC Regents would not be able to modify its investment policy in order to alleviate a host of other social harms, such as the occupation of Tibet, slave labor, human trafficking, any government practices that are racist, sexist, homophobic and otherwise dehumanizing. It clearly leaves much to be desired in the human rights arena.  Worst of all, it seems that the Yudof doctrine has no potential to prevent harms before they occur, as it would not allow divestment from genocide until it had actually happened. Indeed, the Yudof doctrine would have even barred divestment from Nazi Germany until it was too late — unforgivably ignoring any warning signs before the fact, and limiting the preventative positive impact divestment measures with proper vigilance can have. On top of arbitrarily limiting investor activism to genocide, the Yudof doctrine leaves the decision to the unreliable political whims of Washington DC — which, nearly a century later, has yet to even recognize the Armenian genocide. The Yudof doctrine — which contradicts UC history, since UC divested from South Africa for apartheid over two decades ago — also neglects the fact that the US government’s position on foreign relations often lags behind the consensus of the human rights community on what is socially just and ethically imperative. [...]"   

Rebranding Israel as a state headed for fascism [05/20/10] "No one knows fascism better than Israelis. They are schooled, drilled in the history, the mechanics, the horrendous potential of fascist regimes. Israelis know fascism when they see it. In others.  [...]"   

Israel seeks to silence dissent [05/15/10] "Several examples now point to an uncomfortable reality for the self-proclaimed "only democracy in the Middle East": practices that have long been routine in the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza are being used in Israel to suppress dissent and limit civil liberties. The green line is increasingly blurry. So why is this happening now? First, it is the latest manifestation of a deteriorating atmosphere in Israel, with political dissent and human rights groups under attack. Depressingly, there is considerable support among Jewish Israelis for this kind of crackdown: one poll found that 57.6% of respondents "agreed that human rights organisations that expose immoral conduct by Israel should not be allowed to operate freely". [...]"  Related:  Israeli to admit to starving child  "An ultra-orthodox Israeli who is accused of starving her already-ailing infant is expected to admit the charges in court. [...]"     

Israel's ID/Permit System [05/14/10] "Under Israeli military occupation, repression is worse than South Africa's. It's a sophisticated form of social, economic, political and racial discrimination, strangulation, and genocide, incorporating the worst elements of colonialism and apartheid as well as repressive dispossession, displacement and state terrorism to separate Palestinians from their land and heritage, deny them their rightful civil and human rights, and gradually remove or eliminate them altogether. [...]"     

Eugenics—Alive and Well in Israel [05/14/10] "In two separate stories, my landsmen are making obstetrical recommendations in order to prevent population growth in “undesirable” groups living in Israel.  In the first video, there is a story of the Israeli authorities heavily promoting birth control to pregnant Ethiopian (i.e., Black, i.e., schvartze) Jewish refugees. In the second video, Harvard Professor Martin Kramer (NO relation!!!) is pushing to end post-natal subsidies to Palestinian refugees in order to cut down on the future “terrorist” population. [...]"  Related: New weapons experimented in Gaza: population risks genetic mutations  "Toxic and carcinogenic metals, able to produce genetic mutations, have been found in the tissues of people wounded in Gaza during Israeli military operations of 2006 and 2009. The research has been carried out on wounds provoked by weapons that did not leave fragments in the bodies of the victims, a peculiarity that was pointed out repeatedly by doctors in Gaza. This shows that experimental weapons, whose effects are still to be assessed, were used. [...]"   

Flashback: DOJ: AIPAC case witness was asked to 'fake...suicide' [05/14/10] "Two people asked a Pentagon official cooperating with prosecutors in an investigation into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to fake his own death to avoid testifying against two pro-Israel lobbyists charged in the case, according to the Justice Department. Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin pled guilty in October 2005 to participating in a conspiracy with AIPAC officials Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman to obtain and distribute classified information. The Justice Department dropped the case against Rosen and Weissman last month as a trial approached. [...]"    

Israeli Meddling In Africa [05/10/10] "All signs indicate that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman remains keen on implementing his ministry's strategic priorities as set out from his first day in office, including pouncing on Africa. Lieberman's interest in Africa revives former prime minister Golda Meir's outlook in the 1950s and 1960s. She visited most non-Arab states on the continent. Israel's current intensified moves mainly target the Horn of Africa, which includes Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia.  While the Israeli Foreign Ministry is in theory in charge of Israel's policies in Africa, there is no doubt that the party that is playing the greater role is Mossad. It maintains active agents in many African capitals, as recently revealed by Haaretz newspaper. Assigning Mossad this task is directly connected to this organisation's routine attempts to undermine the national security of Arab states in Africa and on the Red Sea. [...]"    

Israel Did 9-11 - How Zionists React to the Truth [05/09/10] "This article has been updated with photos of a Zionist Jew attacking Zan on a sidewalk in Los Angeles as he peacefully picketed with a sign that said "Israel - not Muslims - did 9-11". These photos open up the much neglected subject of Zionist violence against American 9-11 truth activists. [...]"  Related:"Israel Did 9-11 – How Zionists React to the Truth" - The Video  By Christopher Bollyn [10:43]  "This elderly man gets nothing but insults and harassment when he stands outside a theater holding a sign. It shows the success of the brainwashing done to Americans regarding the events of 9/11  [...]"    

Zionists named the bogeyman on 9-11  [05/05/10] [10:55] "Within minutes of the airplane crashes on 9-11, Ehud Barak (the founder and master of the Israeli military's covert operation force, the Sayeret Matkal) was in the London studio of the BBC World ready to provide a plausible (and political) explanation to the world. Barak, the real mastermind of 9-11, was the first person to call for a "War on Terror" - and U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and the Middle East. This is how false-flag terrorism works. The perpetrator is the first one to assign blame by pointing his finger at his enemy in order to shape public opinion, which is the real purpose of such atrocities. Sounds like these two are reading from the same script that was being read in the USA just 40 minutes after the first WTC explosion. I recorded every minute of the live news casts on 911, and viewing it years later, its very clear who the criminals are. . Read Christopher Bollyn's articles about Ehud Barack and Richard Perle and how they were directly involved in the planning and cover up for 9-11. How Ehud Barack Pulled Off 9-11 See here. [...]"  

The next 9/11 – made in Israel? [05/02/10] "M.O. Cathail views the evidence indicating that dual loyalty officials in the US administration are funnelling American nuclear secrets not only to Israel, but also to terrorist organizations in order to facilitate a “nuclear 9/11” and a massive US attack against Iran or Pakistan. ”If, as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu admitted, 9/11 was ‘very good’ for Israel, a nuclear 9/11 might be even better. As the spellbinding effects of that traumatic event nine years ago have begun to wear off, and with Americans increasingly questioning the costs of a one-sided alliance [with Israel], it may even be considered necessary.” ..... Israel’s nuclear espionage against the United States didn’t end with its accession to the nuclear club in the late 1960s, however. As former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds revealed, its smuggling network received crucial assistance from three high-ranking officials in the George W. Bush administration. All three have close ties to Israel’s military-industrial complex [...]"    

Nuclear agency set to focus on Israel [05/08/10] "Israel's secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for the first time, according to documents shared Friday with The Associated Press.  A copy of the restricted provisional agenda of the IAEA's June 7 board meeting lists "Israeli nuclear capabilities" as the eighth item — the first time that that the agency's decision-making body is being asked to deal with the issue in its 52 years of existence.  The agenda can still undergo changes in the month before the start of the meeting and a senior diplomat from a board member nation said the item, included on Arab request, could be struck if the U.S. and other Israeli allies mount strong opposition. He asked for anonymity for discussing a confidential matter.  Even if dropped from the final agenda, however, its inclusion in the May 7 draft made available to The AP is significant, reflecting the success of Islamic nations in giving concerns about Israel's unacknowledged nuclear arsenal increased prominence.  The 35-nation IAEA board is the agency's decision making body and can refer proliferation concerns to the U.N. Security Council — as it did with Iran in 2006 after Tehran resumed uranium enrichment, a potential pathway to nuclear weapons. A decision to keep the item would be a slap in the face not only for Israel but also for Washington and its Western allies, which support the Jewish state and view Iran as the greatest nuclear threat to the Middle East. [...]"   Related: Israel Again Rejects Notion of Joining NPT  "In a response apparently aimed at IAEA Chief Amano Yukiya’s letter asking for international help with convincing Israel to join the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Israeli officials are making it clear that won’t happen. [...]"    

Israel’s military indoctrination of children  Stephen Lendman [05/08/10] "The modern roots of Zionism go back to its founding at the First Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland, in 1897, its programme being the “establishing for the Jewish people of a publicly and legally assured home in Eretz Yisrael”. Five decades later, this was accomplished by dispossessing indigenous Palestinians, denying them the right to their land, creating a new Jewish identity, legitimising Jews as rightful owners, and using superior military force to support the state against defenceless civilians who were no match against their powerful adversary.  Leading up to and after its war of independence, Israel stayed politically and militarily hard line, negotiating from strength, choosing confrontation over diplomacy, and naked aggression as a form of self- defence and occupation in order to seize as much of historic Palestine as possible and secure an ethnically pure Jewish state. These policies were called “Israelification [and] De-Arabisation” to preserve a “Jewish character”.  In his book, The Making of Israeli Militarism, author Uri Ben-Eliezer says writing about Israeli militarism involves “ventur(ing) into an intellectual minefield”, given Jewish history under the Nazis and the perception of Israel as a safe haven. Yet, decades of Arab- Israeli conflict have produced seven full-scale wars, two Intifadas, and many hundreds of violent incidents. [...]"    

Israel Prepares for Possibility of Summer War with Lebanon [05/08/10] "Emerging from a briefing earlier this week with top Israeli intelligence officers, one Israeli lawmaker quipped, “If you have a bomb shelter, clean it out now.”  This warning came amid reports of the potential for summer war breaking out between Israel and Lebanon, spilling over into Syria. Leaders on all sides have tried to calm these fears, but they persist.  This could be because intelligence is being leaked that Hizbullah in Lebanon has obtained larger and more precise rockets from Syria and Iran that put most of the Israeli population in its reach.  In addition, the redistribution to all Israeli citizens of kits to protect them against chemical and biological attacks by Israeli army Home Front Command has done little to calm fears that a conflagration is nigh.  Col. Yossi Sagiv, who is responsible for the Home Front Command’s protective kits distribution program, said the timing was coincidental.  “We had originally planned to start this in January 2009, but it was delayed until now due to budgetary reasons, that’s all,” Sagiv told The Media Line.  Under the new plan Israelis are now ordering their newly designed gas masks from the post office and an employee will deliver them straight to their door. For decades Israel has equipped its citizens with kits to protect them from gas and germ warfare. But it collected the old ones in 2007. [...]"    

Israeli official: Talks a 'dead end' [05/08/10] "A top Israeli official says peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority are at a "dead end." [...]"   

Another Israeli "dual citizen" in the news [05/05/10] "According to the current edition of the New Yorker, magazine, Beverly Hills billionaire Haim Saban donated $7 million to the Democratic National Committee for its new headquarters shortly after former president Bill Clinton personally lobbied the president of Brazil to approve a private business deal that netted Saban $1.5 billion in capital gains. Describing the 2001 sale of Saban’s Fox Family network to Disney, which brought the Egyptian-born Saban — a dual citizen of Israel and the U.S. — $5.3 billion, author Connie Bruck writes: [...]"   

 Commentary: What’s Next from Israel: Entropy or Outrage? [05/05/10] "Israeli war-planners face a dilemma. After more than six decades of duplicitous behavior, their playbook is pretty well played out. Not that Tel Aviv will not deceive again. Or at least try. Odds are we’ll see another round of either entropy or outrage or some lethal combination. [...]"   

They are no longer needed: Knesset online security “lapse” exposes identities of top Mossad and Shin Bet officials [05/05/10] "The Knesset Web site committed a major security lapse several weeks ago by publicizing the names [...]"   

Israel has designs on water from the Nile River [04/28/10] "A study prepared by Dr. Adel Amer, head of the Center, "the front of the Economic Studies and Political Rights" in Egypt on the map, "Israel" aiming for a share of the waters of the Nile River. The study pointed out that "Israel" seeks to implement its plan by trying to encroachment in countries sources, abetting and attempting to Egypt and the Sudan to reduce their share of water, in addition to its theft of groundwater by drilling wells near the Egyptian border.  ..."   

Israel protests Egyptian minister's words [04/28/10] "The Israeli ambassador to Egypt has lodged a protest over Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's description of Israel as "the enemy" during a visit to Beirut. ..."  

Mossad And The Russian Mafia Plutonium Connection [04/22/10] "Scientists at the European Trans-Uranium Institute at Karlsruhe in Germany, tracking the movements of all fissionable material from the former Soviet Unionís nuclear arsenal, have raised suspicions that Mossad has purchased some of the material to allegedly stop it falling into the hands of Islamic and other terror groups.  But there is also the real possibility that Israel has gone into the nuclear black market to buy fissionable material to bolster its own huge nuclear arsenal. ..."   

Germany set to sell Israel submarines [04/22/10] "New reports say Israel is planning to establish a deep-sea navy and is negotiating with Germany over the purchase warships and submarines. ..."  Note: I'd say that is not only ironic, but dangerous. 

95-Year-Old Alleged Nazi Under Fresh German Scrutiny [04/22/10] "The new evidence was discovered by two journalists from daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and a German historian who works for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. "We're very proud and pleased that we played a role in the reopening of this case," Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center said from Jerusalem. "Steidtmann is certainly of equivalent notoriety as some of the people on our list of the top most wanted Nazis."  

Israel Celebrates Its Independence from Humanity [04/19/10] "Tomorrow Israel will celebrate its Day of Independence. Thousands of Israelis will gather in parks and prepare the Hibachis which were carefully put away in storage a year ago. It’s a happy day for those very people that seem to be totally oblivious to the suffering which resulted from the Declaration which created the state. ..."  Related: Clinton Pledges US Solidarity With Israel; Vows To Protect Its Security Note: Is this a quarterly or bi-monthly vow?

Barak: “The Only Way out of Iran Crises is a Bold Israeli Move” [04/19/10] "Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israel Radio on Monday that the only way out of the current “stalemate” with Iran is a bold Israeli move... ..."  Note:  Go ahead ... see what happens ...

Accelerating Fascism In Israel  [04/16/10] "Occupied Palestinians and Israeli Arabs never had rights in a state affording them solely to Jews. Now even they're at risk as democratic freedoms fast erode on their way to extinction; to wit, free expression, a right without which all others are endangered. It includes free speech, a free press, freedom of thought, culture, intellectual inquiry, and the right to challenge government authority peacefully, especially in times of war and cases of injustice, lawlessness, incompetence, and abuses of power. ..."    

Israel Dismisses Obama Call to Join NPT [04/16/10] "In fact according to Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, the Obama Administration has never asked them to change their policy of “nuclear ambiguity,” whereby Israel refuses to admit to its massive nuclear arsenal and refuses to join any group which would subject them to any sort of oversight. ..."   

World Jewish leader to Obama: Is U.S. committed to Israel's security?  [04/16/10] "World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has publicly questioned U.S. President Barack Obama's commitment to Israel's security, in a letter he reportedly drafted with the approval of his close friend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Our great country and the tiny State of Israel have long shared the core values of freedom and democracy," wrote Lauder, in a letter published Thursday as an advertisement in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. ..."  Note:   Ronald Lauder is one of those mentioned in conjunction with the 911 dynamic.

Dr. Strangelove, Made in Israel [04/16/10] "Dr. Kass’ position and access inevitably raise a number of questions. Her appointment is somewhat unseemly, which even the Air Force appeared to recognize when it removed her bio from the website. To challenge Dr. Kass’s position is not to question her academic credentials and intelligence or even her ability or integrity, but it is not unreasonable to ask why the Pentagon would appoint to a sensitive position someone who was born, raised, and served at a senior level with the armed forces in a foreign country. ..."   

Political Theatrics:  Nukes and Temples [04/16/10] "In 1969, Kissinger, aware that Israel had deceived the United States about its nuclear bomb program, which it was suspected to have stolen from the U.S., wrote to Nixon that pressuring Israel to reveal its nuclear arsenal would result in a Soviet nuclear guarantee for the [oil rich] Arabs and increase conflict in the region . Ironically, it was Nixon who soon after had considered sending airborne troops to seize oilfields in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi pursuing the 1973 war. Today, the secrecy continues, as does the aid to Israel — perhaps towards a messianic return – the building of the Third Temple. In 2006, the Israeli government began work on an exact replica of the Hurva synagogue on its original site. The story of the Hurva has received little attention other than coinciding with Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and that government’s insistence on building more illegal settlements. But Hurva is the beginning of the end. ..."     

Israel's Declining Sperm Quality Tied to Depleted Uranium Exposure [04/16/10] "Israel's population is facing a dire threat: a drastic depopulation, from the use of weapons that leave behind Depleted Uranium (DU). Depleted Uranium leads to the word Omnicidal, as DU kills everything in the food chain, everywhere the wind blows. Experts say the dramatic drop in Israel's sperm count could eliminate their ability to reproduce. ..."   

ADL - Prosecute Tea Party 'Hate Speech!' [04/16/10] "The Jewish Anti-Defamation League says alleged racial slurs by Tea Party protestors against Congress members last month are "hate speech" and not protected by the First Amendment. According to ADL, Tea Party protestors "crossed the line" with racial slurs against black Congressmen. Such slurs, ADL head Abe Foxman contends, "are not constitutionally protected, and require a strong legal response." ..."   

Human Experience Fail: Donkey, Horse and Cat in Israeli Jail [04/15/10] "Stories and aberrant practices like these do not happen anywhere in the world but only in Israel, where the mentally ill zionists reign supreme.  “They laid the donkey and the horse down by use of force, and then they cuffed their legs and put them on a military vehicle. The scene was disgusting; especially when they tied up the four legs of these animals and transferred them to jail on charges of having entered a military zone”. ..."  

America’s Loose Nukes in Israel [04/15/10] "Israel decided this week to send Minister for Intelligence Affairs Dan Meridor to the Nuclear Security summit. This U.S. bid to secure vulnerable nuclear stockpiles against non-state actors is both closely watched and furiously spun. Israel avoided exposing Prime Minister Netanyahu to embarrassing scrutiny of Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons arsenal. For this reason, trumpets the New York Times, Israel sent a lower-level delegation. But Israel has long responded defiantly to threats of robust U.S. oversight. A long-running investigation into how weapons-grade uranium went missing from Pennsylvania illustrates why America has been incapable of securing its own nuclear materials and know-how from insider threats. The future of that uranium may determine the success or failure of the Obama administration’s non-proliferation effort. Steve Levin was a member of the underground Haganah – a precursor to the Israel Defense Forces – and fought during Israel’s 1948 war under Meir Amit, who later became head of Israeli intelligence. Levin was a close friend of David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel. In the mid-1940s while leading the Jewish Agency, Ben-Gurion launched a massive clandestine conventional arms financing, theft, and smuggling network [.pdf] in the United States diverting to Palestine small arms, heavy machine guns, munitions-making equipment, aircraft, ships, and tanks destined for American scrap yards after World War II. On the nuclear front, Levin financed the purchase of the Apollo Steel Company facility in Pennsylvania for $450,000. Founder and President Dr. Zalman M. Shapiro, a genius inventor and head of a local Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) chapter, incorporated the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) at Apollo in 1956. Levin capitalized NUMEC through a stock offering in 1957 and business took off – propelled by the critical knowledge of highly talented scientists.  ..."    

Social Mind Control: Bookstore chain removes book critical of Israel's settlers from shelves [04/14/10] "According to information received by Ynet, right-wing elements have been pressuring the chain's management in recent days to stop distributing the book in which the authors make harsh accusations against settlers and the settlement enterprise, calling to dismantle it and "stop the occupation." Ynet also learned that sources at Tzomet Sfarim expressed concern that the affair will harm the chain.  ..."    

Holocaust-Carnival Season in Israel: Commemorating one holocaust while effecting another [04/14/10] "This is the holocaust-carnival season in Israel, or more correctly, the premier annual hasbara event of using the tragic events of World War II to attract sympathy, blackmail the world, and especially divert attention from Israel’s ongoing holocaust against the Palestinian people. ..."    

Jewish executive pleads guilty in another Ponzi scheme targeting orthodox Jews [04/14/10] "The founder and chairman of private equity firm WexTrust Capital LLC has pleaded guilty to fraud in connection with what federal investigators called a $255 million Ponzi scheme that targeted Orthodox Jews.  Steven Byers, 47, admitted to one count of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy at a Tuesday hearing before U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan federal court.  He could face a sentence of 151 to 188 months in prison under his plea agreement. Byers also agreed to forfeit $9.2 million of ill-gotten gains, the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.  The defendant lives in Oak Brook, Illinois, and is free on bail pending a sentencing set for September 13.  Investigators accused Byers and former WexTrust Chief Operating Officer Joseph Shereshevsky of conducting at least 60 private placements and creating 150 entities purportedly to fund commercial real estate ventures, when in fact they were diverting money to themselves or to pay off prior investors. In a 2008 civil complaint, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Chicago-based WexTrust raised the $255 million from at least 1,196 investors, mainly between 2005 and 2008. The SEC said Byers was involved with real estate investments, while Shereshevsky's role was to oversee real estate and diamond mining assets and use his "wide contacts" in the Orthodox Jewish community to solicit investors. ..."  

Turkey criticizes Israel's nuclear program [04/12/10] "Turkey's prime minister said the world is turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear program and he intends to raise the issue at the nuclear summit in Washington. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Iran's nuclear program is being scrutinized because of its membership in the International Atomic Energy Agency whereas Israel, which has not signed a nonproliferation treaty, is "free to do what it wants." ..."   

Great rebuttal by CNN anchor against a Israel Spokeswomen [04/12/10] [4:21]  "Great rebuttal by CNN anchor against a Israel Spokeswomen. Some interesting things said that makes you ponder:  "The fact there haven't been casualties in Israel... all the Israeli's that have been killed those who have come out from the bomb shelter." Not sure but I think Israel have claimed many more than that. ..." 

The dark underbelly of Israel's security state - Anat Kamm: Spy or whistleblower? [04/11/10] "What is misleadingly being called in Israel the “Anat Kamm espionage affair” is quickly revealing the dark underbelly of a nation that has worshipped for decades at the altar of a security state, Jonathan Cook reports. ...” ... Fugitive Israeli journalist Uri Blau’s] reports [based on Anat Kamm's leaked information] included revelations that the senior command had approved targeting Palestinian bystanders during the military’s extra-judicial assassinations in the occupied territories; that, in violation of a commitment to the high court, the army had issued orders to execute wanted Palestinians even if they could be safely apprehended; and that the Defence Ministry had a compiled a secret report showing that the great majority of settlements in the West Bank were illegal even under Israeli law (all are illegal in international law) ..."    

Exposé: Israel seizing hundreds of millions of shekels meant for Palestinian services [04/08/10] "For the past 15 years, Israel has been channeling hundreds of millions of shekels it had collected in the West Bank into its state coffers. The move is considered illegal, since international law prohibits an occupying power from appropriating the fruit of economic activity in an occupied territory. ..."   

Israel plans to maintain Nuke ambiguity with US help [04/08/10] "Israeli foreign ministry says Tel Aviv plans to maintain its policy of ambiguity over its nuclear program with the help of its veto-wielding ally, the United States.  ..."  Note: Who in the world DOESN'T know Israel has 200-400 nuclear weapons?  A Veto doesn't mean reality isn't what it is.

'No trace of Israel will remain if Iran attacked' [04/08/10] "Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi has lashed out at the United States for its dual-based nuclear policies. ..."   

Why There Are No “Israelis” in the Jewish State [04/08/10] "The head of the campaign for Israeli nationality, Uzi Ornan, a retired linguistics professor, said: “It is absurd that Israel, which recognises dozens of different nationalities, refuses to recognise the one nationality it is supposed to represent.” .... The government opposes the case, claiming that the campaign’s real goal is to “undermine the state’s infrastructure” — a presumed reference to laws and official institutions that ensure Jewish citizens enjoy a privileged status in Israel. ...“The State of Israel cannot recognise an ‘Israeli’ nation because it is the state of the ‘Jewish’ nation … it belongs to the Jews of Brooklyn, Budapest and Buenos Aires, even though these consider themselves as belonging to the American, Hungarian or Argentine nations ....."  

  Israel: Israeli police uncovers organ trafficking ring in north [04/08/10] "Police on Tuesday arrested six men suspected of being involved in an organ trafficking ring in northern Israel. Among the suspects are an IDF reserves brigadier-general and two lawyers. The department for fraud and misappropriation in northern Israel has been conducting an undercover investigation which began following a complaint by a 50-year-old woman from Nazareth, who replied to an advertisement in Arabic offering 100,000 dollars for a kidney. The woman underwent medical examinations to ensure a match, and she was then flown a country in Eastern Europe where they extracted her kidney. The woman said that when she returned to Israel, she did not receive the money promised to her. Police say they have since received similar complaints. ..."   

Israel unveils “green” strategy to defeat 'enemies' [03/30/10] "Under cover of a sudden interest in developing new green technologies, and with strong support from US neo-conservatives, the Israeli government hopes to weaken the Gulf states by making their oil redundant and thereby defeating “Islamic terror”. ..."    

Algerian authorities arrest Mossad agent holding forged passport [03/30/10] "Algerian newspaper revealed on Sunday that the authorities in Algeria arrested a secret agent working for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence apparatus, and holding a forged Spanish passport. According to Al-Nahar newspaper, the Algerian security apparatuses arrested an Israeli spy called Alberto, 35, in the city of Hassi Messaoud near an Egyptian office providing service for oil companies. ..."  

UK: Report: Israel copied thousands of passports [03/30/10] "Britain believes thousands of its passports have been copied by airline staff working for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, a UK tabloid reported Sunday. News of the World reported that the British MI6 intelligence service believe Britons flying to Israel have been targeted for months and their documents cloned. The British Foreign Office held top-level talks on whether to issue a warning against traveling with certain airlines, the report said. Police officials reportedly believe documents were also copied during searches at a September terrorism conference in Israel. “It was said to be routine but the searches did not apply to all nations,” one of the participants was quoted as saying. “There is now a real concern that some of these high-ranking officers and officials have also had documents cloned.” On Tuesday, Britain expelled an Israeli diplomat believed to be Mossad’s top agent operating in the country. ..."   

Israeli detention of a Palestinian leader for participating in a peaceful rally  [03/30/10] "Israeli occupation forces transferred member of Fatah's Central Committee Abbas Zaki to Ofer prison near Ramallah, Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) said Monday. Zakki, who was arrested in Bethlehm yesterday, has been issued a four day detention at an Israeli jail, PPC said. Israeli occupation forces arrested Zaki along with 11 Palestinians near Bethlehem yesterday during their participation in a popular demonstration marking the Christian Pal Sunday celebrations. The demonstration was stopped by the Israeli forces while the rest of the demonstrators who were about 100 Palestinian and Israeli left-wing activists were forcibly removed from the checkpoint area. Israeli occupation forces attacked the demonstrators who raised the Palestinian flags along signs on freedom of belief. Israeli detention of a Palestinian leader for participating in a peaceful rally is unprecedented, said the club. ..."  

Israel predicts a new crisis with Europe [03/30/10] "Israeli political sources believed that the demands put forward by U.S. President Barack Obama on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the White House last week, shows America’s intention to impose a permanent status agreement on both Israel and the Palestinians within two years. The sources believed that the claimant mentioned isn’t only ( the tip of the iceberg), as they say, and carries with it a dramatic shift in U.S. policy towards Israel. (Ha'aretz) newspaper mentioned through the same sources, the warning that the evasion of the United States from its previous commitments toward Israel would undermine the willingness of the Israeli public to put their trust in the American futuristic guarantees. ..."  Note: According to some, Israel has all EU capitols targeted with nukes. 

Israeli attacks: Palestine needs support [03/30/10] "... Israel justifies its frequent military incursions into Gaza — and the starvation siege imposed on the Palestinian territory — by citing rocket attacks fired from Gaza into Israel. Sameh Akram Habeeb, founder of the Palestine Telegraph, told Green Left Weekly: “From 2005 to 2009, 17 Israelis were killed. From 2000 till 2008, the total of Israelis killed by these rockets was around 30.” Habeeb said this figure is negligible compared with the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli occupation.  ..."  Note: This article includes a very interesting overview, beginning with the above extract, all to establish a backstory lasting a decade for this latest (3/29) incursion into Gaza by the Israeli military.

War Games: Israel gets ready to Strike at Iran's Nuclear Sites [03/29/10] "Israeli air force have practiced simulated strikes at Iran's nuclear facilities using airspace of at least two unidentified Arab countries, a newspaper published in east Jerusalem reported. According to Al Manar paper, several Israeli combat jets carried out in late February bombing drills "targeting" known Iranian nuclear sites "in two Arab countries in the Persian Gulf, which are close territorially with the Islamic republic and cooperate with Israel on this issue." Al Manar said Israel had received the permission to use the airspace from the top leadership of these countries and Washington "gave a blessing" to Tel Aviv to conduct these exercises. Despite broad international efforts to persuade Tehran to halt its uranium enrichment, both the United States and Israel have not ruled out military action if diplomacy fails to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program. Iran, which is currently under three sets of UN sanctions for refusing to halt uranium enrichment, insists it needs nuclear technology to generate electricity, while Western powers suspect it of pursuing an atomic weapons program. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently called for the international community to impose a new set of 'crippling' sanctions on Iran to make the Islamic republic scrap its controversial nuclear program. ..."  

337 House members sign letter criticizing Obama’s Israel policy [03/29/10] "337 congressmen – three-quarters of the House of Representatives – signed a bipartisan letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing solid support for Israel and the expectation that differences between Jerusalem and Washington will be smoothed over quickly and in private. “We are writing to reaffirm our commitment to the unbreakable bond that exists between our country and the State of Israel and to express to you our deep concern over recent tension,” the letter read. “A strong Israel is an asset to the national security of the United States and brings stability to the Middle East. ..."  

Israeli spy agency Mossad still unchallenged in the West [03/28/10] "Paul J. Balles views the use of deception, disinformation and murder by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, and notes that “not a single establishment journalist nor Western intelligence agency has given enough credence” to former Mossad operative Victor Ostrovsky's revelations about the agency’s methods “to modify and correct the Mossad-planted line”. ”If journalists of the so-called free Western press ever took stock of Victor Ostrovsky's revelations, they've neatly swept them under the carpet. The hoax, the disinformation and deception created by Israel's Mossad, is finally crumbling like the Tower of Babel it reflects.” ..."  Note:  They were involved in the 911 attack.

Norman Finkelstein vs. an Israeli lunatic on Russia Today [03/28/10] Video clip [25:36]  "On Peter Lavelle's CrossTalk, Israel critic Norman Finkelstein faces off against a formidable spokesperson of Israel's 'soft power'.  ..."   

Turkey: Erdogan: Israeli stance on Al-Quds is 'madness' [03/27/10] "Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blasted Israel's insistence on its stance to consider the whole Jerusalem (Al-Quds) as its united capital as 'madness.' ..."   

Face Off: The Zionist Fanatics vs. the U.S.  By Christopher Bollyn [03/28/10] "Benjamin Netanyahu's name, however, is not really Netanyahu and never was. There is, in fact, no real connection between the Jew who owned the ring and the obnoxious Israeli prime minister, and he knows it very well but that doesn't stop him from lying to the AIPAC crowd. His father was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, with the name Benzion Mileikowsky. Like many Zionist immigrants from Poland and Russia, the Mileikowsky family changed the name when they came to Palestine in the 1920s. Shimon Peres is the same. Peres was born Szymon Perski in Wiszniewo, Poland, on August 2, 1923. The Mileikowskys and Perskis of Poland are, indeed, "foreign colonialists" and have no historical or religious right to the land of Palestine. ..."  Related: Bibi Netanyahu....Is There An Israeli Blue Noose In Your Future? "Perhaps the most important thing we learned from the Mossad assassination of a Palestinian freedom fighter in Dubai not long ago is that each time Israel commits a murder somewhere in the world, an Israeli prime minister must sign off on it. That must mean that there are a couple of signatures on the Mossad 911 sign off sheet. The first would be the signature of Bibi Netanyahu. It would be near the end of Netanyahu's first stent as Prime minister in 2001 that he would dispatch his Mossad death squad to America to observe, if not assist, those who would allegedly hijack our planes and kill our citizens on 9/11. The second signature would be that of Ariel Sharon the Israeli Prime Minister in power as the 9/11 plot to kill innocent Americans was executed ..."

Moussa: 'Time to face Israel', ME peace 'a failure' [03/27/10] "The Arab League chief cautions that the so-called Middle East peace process may be “a complete failure”, calling on Arab states to seek other alternatives. ..."   

Gordon Duff: Sabrosky Interview Ties Israel To 9/11 [03/26/10] "Meet Dr. Alan Sabrosky, a brave man, a USMC Vietnam vet, an American of Jewish ancestry and someone devoted to the security of the United States at any cost. Ask any Jew what it takes to stand up against the most powerful and ruthless group in the world, the Israeli lobby inside the United States. Sabrosky has been calling for a new 9/11 investigation for some time. What makes him unique is that we have a Jew who can hardly be called “self-hating” or “anti-Semitic” or against Israel. He is consistent in everything he says. His point is that you are an American or you are an Israeli but you can’t be both, especially now with Zionism turning Israeli foreign policy into a “runaway train.” 9/11, as Sabrosky sees it was the watershed in a relationship between America and Israel that has gone from bad to unsurviveable, especially for America. He contents that AIPAC exercises near total control over the electoral process in America through the ability to outspend any other group and destroy anyone who stands against them. Sabrosky is one of the few Americans who sees the nuclear threat of Israel as it is, blackmailing the United States, not only in how it could be used to draw America into an unwanted war, but how it could actually be used at some point to attack the United States itself. Only recently, Israel put Western Europe on notice that it would be attacked if its actions threatened Israel, attacked by nuclear weaons from Israel without warning. Martin van Creveld’s threat combined with Sabrosky’s analysis of Israeli intentions and culpability for 9/11 brings to mind something Sabrosky had once written.  Sabrosky makes a case, not just for a coverup of 9/11 but goes much further. He points out as do so many that the physics of the attack are unworkable. He, however, is one of the few to point to a conclusion many find obvious but few have the nerve to admit, that it would have been impossible to stage 9/11 without the full resources of both the CIA and Mossad and that 9/11 served the interests of both agencies quite well. There was nothing they could have wished for more. ..."  Related: See below:

Military Knows Israeli Agents Did 9/11  Video clip [9:53]  "Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College says that the military brass now know that Israel and those traitors within our nation committed the 911 attack ..." Part 2 Video clip [9:39] Part 3 Video clip [9:52] Part 4 Video clip [9:46] Part 5 Video clip [9:46]     

Top Ten Reasons East Jerusalem does not belong to Jewish-Israelis [03/26/10] "Netanyahu mixed together Romantic-nationalist cliches with a series of historically false assertions. But even more important was everything he left out of the history, and his citation of his warped and inaccurate history instead of considering laws, rights or common human decency toward others not of his ethnic group. So here are the reasons that Netanyahu is profoundly wrong, and East Jerusalem does not belong to him. ..."    

At White House, Netanyahu humiliated by Obama [03/26/10] "US President Barack Obama quit a recent meeting with Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu to have dinner in private after the latter failed to hand a written promise of concessions on Jewish settlements, reports say. ..."   

Israeli minister says settlement approval 'divine' [03/26/10] "The Israeli interior minister believes 'divine grace' enabled him to approve the expansion of Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territories. ..."  Note:  Is he an idiot with the mind of child, or a child with the mind of an idiot? 

 Commentary: The Southern Poverty Law Center...Another Zionist Hate Organization In Disguise? [03/26/10] "I bet you thought the Southern Poverty Law Center had something to do with the civil rights of poor African Americans didn't you? At some point I did too. That's why I thought it was strange when I heard that the SPLC had branded We Are Change as a hate group. You see that's apparently what the Southern Poverty Law Center does. It solicits vast amounts of money each year to support its wealthy board of directors and brands Americans as hate groups. Not a bad gig if you are a greedy, unscrupulous and hypocritical shit. But who has become the serious harbingers of hate in this country? It doesn't take long to figure out that this organization is just one more cog in what has been described as the Zionist Power Configuration. You see the SPLC like many Jewish extremist hate organizations never judges a man by the color of his skin or ethnicity unless he happens to be a Palestinian or stands in the way of their nefarious Zionist self serving objectives. But what are SPLC's directors Morris Dees and Joseph Levin really worried about here. We Are Change is simply an organization that wants a real investigation into 911. No sign of hate that I could see on their website. And why did former Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff suggest that " the questioning of 911 truth was akin to holocaust denial". Or how about Obama advisor Cass Sunstein? The Harvard professor who produced a paper that would call for the "cognitive infiltration" of 911 conspiracy groups. Could these guys have figured out like many of the rest of us that all roads to 911 truth lead to Tel Aviv. Is there a conspiracy of treason among the supporters of Apartheid Israel in this country? It is beginning to look like it. ..."     Related: Anti-Hate Group Finds Yet Another Group It Hates "The Southern Poverty Law Center (or as I like to call it: ADL South), has published a post on yet another group of people it hates (because it doesn’t fit into the SPLC’s socialist view of the world): FEMA conspiracy theorists. Of course, SPLC’s “expert” sources for the condemnation of the theorists are the highly-esteemed scholarly journals Popular Mechanics and Newsweek, CNN’s “American Morning” show, and (drum roll, please) the latest Establishment pseudo-Libertarian shill Glenn Beck. Well, if those New World Order/One World Government media puppets say that there is no truth to the government building FEMA detention camps for political prisoners, that cinches it for me. That’ll show those conspiracy nuts. Or does it? It seems that a rogue Establishment public broadcast station, KBDI Colorado Public Television, had the temerity to air a documentary called Camp FEMA: American Lockdown three times. The film explores the possibility that the government is building FEMA detention camps for political prisoners. This has ruffled the fascist feathers of the SPLC. The SPLC post also disparages the late Libertarian Aaron Russo’s documentary on the secret history of the Fed that KBDI aired alongside the FEMA documentary. The SPLC proclaims that Russo’s documentary was “debunked” by the “Federal” Reserve Banksters’ own personal mouthpiece, The New York Times. (That’ll show those conspiracy nuts again.) And, of course, where would any post on “hate” groups be without it throwing in the anti-hate warning du jour that some groups are anti-Jewish. Yep, it’s in this SPLC post also. Phew! Now we can all sleep better. ..."   

Israel: More than 250 Congress members declare commitment to 'unbreakable' U.S.-Israel bond [03/26/10] "More than 250 members of Congress have signed on to a declaration reaffirming their commitment to "the unbreakable bond that exists between [U.S.] and the State of Israel", in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ..."  

  Israel: Despite row, U.S. and Israel sign massive arms deal [03/26/10] "As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this week absorbing the full wrath of the Obama administration, the Pentagon and Israel's defense establishment were in the process of sealing a large arms deal. ..."   

Norman Finkelstein booted, again [03/26/10] "Norman Finkelstein may be a curmudgeon who can barely contain his contempt for institutions he feels have violated the public trust. But look past the attitude and sometimes poor choices (which, after all, Finkelstein’s nemesis Dershowitz has in spades) and he’s an excellent, even obsessively detailed scholar, and certainly no anti-Semite. And he’s fundamentally morally right. We Jews especially should be outraged. Finkelstein is someone possessed with the intense and justified anger of a son of concentration camp survivors who saw his parents’ devastating experiences exploited while they received little support. He rails against not just the financial but also the ideological exploitation of the Holocaust. And I think he has the rage of disappointment of the loyal Jewish son who believed all the words about all Jews working to stop injustice, and discovered they weren’t true. ...And this morning, word that the global shunning continues in Chicago, where event organizers report that since he’s not allowed to speak at DePaul (part of his severance agreement-amazingly), they found, and then just lost, an alternative venue: ...."    

CNN: Israel and the lobby against the US:  "A Perfect Storm in Washington" [03/25/10] 3 Video clips  For many decades, Israel's brutality toward its neighbors and its responsibility for the deaths of American soldiers have been absent from most mainstream media. CNN has just broken the mold –  "A perfect storm is brewing in Washington. Gen. Petraeus has given many mainstream commentators cover with his comments about Israel’s actions endangering US lives around the world. It is no longer only our good friends at Mondoweiss.net: everyone from Joe Klein (Time), Roger Cohen (New York Times), Glenn Greenwald (Salon), Andrew Bacevich (Salon), Col. Pat Lang, John Mearsheimer (LRB), Jim Lobe (IPS), Stephen Walt (CNN), to Robert Dreyfuss (The Nation) is talking about it. Juan Cole has also abandoned his overly cautious approach take on the Israel lobby’s chief media doberman: Cpl. Jeffrey Goldberg. Meanwhile, the left is once again proving its irrelevance. Instead of covering the issue seriously Democracy Now! for example focused on the obligatory diplomatic niceties to dismiss the whole issue. (You can picture DN covering Caesar’s assassination and dimissing all of Mark Antony’s concerns because he called Brutus and the conspirators ‘honourable men’). But here is the true indicator of the changing winds in Washington: even CNN is talking about it! (To be fair to Rick Sanchez, he did some courageous reporting even during the Gaza conflict, giving platform to our friend Diana Buttu to debunk Zionist hasbara). ..."  Related: Americans – Are you with Gen. Petraeus and Adm. Mullen or with Israel ?  "(American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee) and its cohorts have manufactured a broad level of support among the American public, but it is based on a mix of indifference, ignorance and low-level indoctrination, and is therefore extremely soft. AIPAC and the rest know this, which is why they work so assiduously to stifle any criticism, and to keep any overt depiction of Israel's oppression of the Palestinians – an oppression far worse than anything blacks suffered in South Africa under apartheid — from public view in America. ..."   

Avi Shlaim: Cut off the cash and Israel might behave [03/24/10] "Avi Shlaim, professor of international relations at the University of Oxford, is author of 'Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations'" "America subsidises Israel to the tune of $3bn (around £2bn) a year. America is Israel's principal arms supplier, enabling it to retain the technological edge over all its enemies, near and far. In the diplomatic arena too, America extends to Israel virtually unqualified support, including the use of the veto in the UN Security Council to defeat resolutions critical of Israel. America condemns Iran for its nuclear ambitions, while turning a blind eye to Israel's possession of a large arsenal of nuclear weapons. This unparalleled generosity towards a junior partner is largely the result of sentimental attachment and shared values. Israel used to present itself as an island of democracy in a sea of authoritarianism. But its own actions have shredded this image to pieces." ..."   

Protecting Israel’s lawlessness: A smear campaign - Naomi Klein [03/24/10] "A while ago, the Reut Institute, arguably Israel's most influential think tank, published a very controversial report about "hubs of delegitimization."   It attempted to equate tactics of non-violent resistance -- like the growing movement to use Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to force Israel to comply with international law -- with a military campaign to destroy the state of Israel. Most worrying, the report explicitly urged Israeli intelligence agencies like Mossad to take unspecified action against peace activists using entirely legal methods: ..."   

Winds of War Blow Across Israel [03/21/10] "Is there a new intifada in the works? This is what Israelis are asking one another following a difficult week full of unrest, tension, and violence. For five days, Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank rioted in a series of outbursts that peaked on their declared “Day of Rage” on Tuesday. Border Guard officers were attacked by dozens of masked rioters hurling stones and setting fire to tires. The rioters were dispersed with stun guns. Both rioters and police suffered injuries and there were multiple arrests. The timing of the unrest isn’t surprising. Israel has given the extremists plenty of ammunition to stir up the population, and the recent sharp exchanges between Washington and Jerusalem have likely given them encouragement. First, there was the declaration of West Bank-located Rachel’s Tomb and Tomb of the Patriarchs as historic sites by the government of Israel, a declaration which gave the government resources to renovate them. Then came the ill-timed announcement of construction of additional housing in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo during the visit of U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, during which he condemned the plan, sparking a war of words between Jerusalem and Washington. Strike three: the dedication of a new synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem — this coming on the heels of the naming of West Bank holy places as Israeli national heritage sites. ..."  

1918 Middle East Map Clearly Shows Palestine [03/21/10] "The Israeli argument is this: the area called "Palestine" was named by the Romans who determined its borders. There was never a group of people called "Palestinians" until then. However, if you live in a land for 2000 years you tend to acquire an identity as a group over time, no matter who named you. Americans have only been in North America for 500 years, yet we definitely identify as Americans -- and we don't expect to be cast out by anyone. (Even the name "American" is not a name we as a people chose for ourselves. It's a Anglicized version of an Italian map maker's first name.) The Israelites of the Bible were deported, cast out, or left on their own accord, from the land that they "acquired" for almost 2000 years and now their (assumed) descendants want to claim it back. However, the Israelis admittedly agree that their supposed ancestors stole the land (with the help of "God") from other people by murdering all the inhabitants therein. That's their claim to the land -- according to their holy book. However, there's plenty of archeological evidence to show that they did NOT kill all those inhabitants, instead they intermarried with some of them (against the wishes of their "God," by the way), and other peoples were simply never vanquished at all by the "mighty" Israelite warriors, or by the hand of their "God." And, now DNA evidence shows that most of the Israeli people claiming this land for their supposed ancestors aren't actually descendants of those original (mixed with Caananite blood) Israelites at all. They are more closely related to modern day Kurds and Georgians from the Caucasus. Claims to Israel by modern Israelis is dubious at best. The reality is that the land belongs to many peoples, and many people (of various backgrounds) should live there, in peace, equally. ..."  Note:  See below:

1918 Middle East Map - Lawrence of Arabia

Zionism Unmasked: The Dark Face Of Jewish Nationalism [03/21/10] "What we need to stand up and say is not only did they attack the U.S.S. Liberty, they did 9/11. They did it. I have had long conversations over the past two weeks with contacts at the Army War College, at it's headquarters, Marine Corps and I made it absolutely clear in both cases that it is 100 percent certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation. Period." - Dr. Alan Sabrosky, March 14, 2010 ..."  Zionism and Nazism: Is there a difference that makes a difference? [03/21/10] "What, then, are the differences and similarities between Zionism and Nazism? If we go back to the definition of Nazism we see four characteristics mentioned. One of them was a reference to a transient political ideology, communism, while the other three are historical constants. Throwing out “anti-communism” we are left with the essential elements. When we look at Zionism in terms of what it actually is rather than some devious, self-serving Zionist definition we find what? - “Nationalism, traditionalism and the importance of the ethnostate.” We also find the essential elements of fascism in general, the arrogance of group ego and the assertion of an a priori privilege that trumps any such fripperies as civil rights, human rights, international law or even common human decency. Coercion and force majeure are the means and virtual enslavement or extermination of the “others” (the goyim) are the ends. Characteristically, we also find the common element of a sense of infinite entitlement based on perceived prior victimhood. As for any arguments based on the obvious or perceived differences between Zionism and Nazism, we can easily dismiss them as superficialities rather than differences that make a difference. Whether it's a brown rat or a grey rat, it's the same animal. Substantively, they are identical manifestations of the same basic pathology and they are equally dangerous to the well being of humanity. We can comfort ourselves with the knowledge that the bullies never win in the end, because underneath the bluster they are abject cowards and cowardice can’t sustain itself in the long term. But that doesn’t mean we can just sit back and wait for them to meet their inevitable fate – as we have seen, they are capable of doing immense harm in the meantime. All of the great wisdom traditions are in agreement that we are human beings first and anything else is at best a secondary characteristic. As long as there remains any confusion about this various forms of fascism will arise and bedevil us. As long as we identify ourselves primarily in some tribal fashion, whether it's based on nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender or any parochial and exclusionary manner, then confusion and conflict will reign supreme. We shall indeed overcome, if we last that long, but only when it is universally understood that We refers to all of us. In the meantime, silence is complicity. ..."   

Recently Declassified FBI files on AIPAC [03/19/10] "According to research director Grant F. Smith, the newly released files present startling new insights into AIPAC's activities in the United States. "These files, available on the Internet for the first time, reveal activities that undermined rule of law and governance. They have wrought massive economic harm to American businesses and workers. We urge all concerned Americans to carefully review and ponder the implications of these FBI files and other documents now available from the Israel Lobby Archive." ..."   

MSM: US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government [03/18/10] "The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A 392 page legal filing presented by a four person IRmep (Institute for Research: Middle East Policy) delegation in a two hour meeting with top officials of the Internal Security Section substantiated the following case for AIPAC's immediate registration: ...AIPAC is a spinoff of an organization already ordered by the DOJ to register as an Israeli foreign agent. In November of 1962 the American Zionist Council was ordered by the Attorney General to begin filing disclosures as an Israeli foreign agent under the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act. (PDF)  Six weeks later, former AZC employees incorporated (PDF) the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, DC, taking over the AZC's lobbying activities.  AIPAC did not register as a foreign agent. .....  AIPAC's founder Isaiah L. Kenen was the chief information officer for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New York and for a time duly registered in that role. (PDF) The Justice Department ordered Kenen to personally re-register after he formally left the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to head up private lobbying and publicity for the Israeli government at the nonprofit American Zionist Council. Kenen never complied with the order.(PDF)  .....  Espionage related FBI investigations in 1984 and 2005 reveal AIPAC's ongoing stealth foreign agency activities. Declassified FBI files released on the Internet last week reveal that in 1984 AIPAC and the Israeli Ministry of Economics were investigated for jointly obtaining and circulating classified US economic data to obtain favorable trade benefits for Israel. ....  In 2005 Pentagon Colonel Lawrence Franklin pled guilty and two AIPAC employees were indicted for obtaining and circulating classified US national defense information to Israeli government officials allegedly in the interest of fomenting US action against Iran. AIPAC's executive committee consists of the original member organizations of the AZC in addition to newer members. The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, the umbrella group of AIPAC's executive committee, is housed in the same New York office as the World Zionist Organization - American Section, a registered foreign agent that is heavily involved in illegal settlement expansion according to Israeli prosecutor Thalia Sasson. .... According to Grant F. Smith, director of IRmep, the case for reregulating AIPAC as a foreign agent immediately is compelling. "AIPAC was designed to supplant the American Zionist Council as the arm of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the United States after the DOJ ordered the AZC to register as a foreign agent. As such, Americans should have full public access to biannual FARA registrations detailing AIPAC's publicity campaigns, lobbying expenditures, funding flows, activities of its offices in Israel and internal consultations with its foreign principals - particularly over such controversial issues as illegal settlements and US foreign aid." Concerned organizations and individuals who wish to supplement the Department of Justice filing or participate in future negotiations with law enforcement officials should contact the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc. at info@IRmep.org or 202-342-7325. IRmep is a private nonprofit that studies how warranted law enforcement and civil action can improve U.S. Middle East policy. "  Note: About time.  Israeli PM’s In-Law Calls Obama Anti-Semite 

 Commentary: The Truth About American and Israeli Interests Comes Out [03/18/10] "The relationship between the United States and Israel has always rested on a number of pretensions, politically useful to politicians on both sides, but because they are untrue, certain eventually to prove destructive to both countries.  ..."  

Israel: "U.S.-Israel tensions ignite 'war of words' amongst Israel lobbies" [03/18/10] "In the past week, U.S. based pro-Israel groups from every variety of political viewpoint has had something to say about the crisis in relations between the U.S. and Israel which stemmed from Israel's announcement of plans to build 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem. J Street has launched a campaign in support of Washington's firm stance on Israel's latest approved building plan in East Jerusalem, the dovish U.S. pro-Israel lobby announced on Tuesday.  ...Abraham Foxman, who heads the Anti-Defamation League, told Haaretz he believed U.S. President Barack Obama was a friend of Israel. "But I think it's a mistaken and counterproductive strategy and flawed analysis of what is in the best interest of the U.S.," Foxman said. "Support of Israel has served the U.S. interests more than supporting anyone else in the world." "  Note:  Yep ... Israel has attacked U.S. interests at least twice, which also serves US interests, in a warped sort of way.

Full El Al flight took off on 9/11 from JFK to Tel Aviv [03/18/10] "WMR has learned from two El Al sources who worked for the Israeli airline at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport that on 9/11, hours after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded all civilian domestic and international incoming and outgoing flights to and from the United States, a full El Al Boeing 747 took off from JFK bound for Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport. The two El Al employee sources are not Israeli nationals but legal immigrants from Ecuador who were working in the United States for the airline. ..."   

'People are laughing at you': U.K. expert on Israel's PR effort [03/17/10] "Conventional marketing wisdom has it that even bad news is good news, as long as people talk about you. But Jonathan Gabay, a leading London-based marketing and branding expert, disagrees, at least when it comes to Israeli hasbara, or public diplomacy. He is extremely critical of the new campaign recently launched by Israel's Information and Diaspora Ministry, which seeks to motivate Israelis traveling abroad to speak up on behalf of Israel. Dubbed Masbirim Israel, or Explaining Israel, the campaign advises citizens on how to discourse politely and provided a list of Israel's achievements to be highlighted in conversations. ..."   

US Media And Israel Military, All In The Family [03/17/10] "Recent exposés revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations. Many people find such a sign of family partisanship in an editor covering a foreign conflict troubling especially given the Times’ record of Israel-centric journalism. Times management at first refused to confirm Bronner’s situation, then refused to comment on it. Finally, public outcry forced Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt to confront the problem in a February 7th column. ..."  

U.S. Peace Negotiator Cancels Trip Over Tensions With Israel [03/17/10] "U.S.-Israel relations have taken another frosty turn since the announcement of 1,600 new Israeli housing units in East Jerusalem. The special American envoy to the region, George Mitchell, has indefinitely delayed a visit and the beginning of new negotiations while the U.S. waits for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to demonstrate a commitment to the peace process. But Hillary Clinton, although talking tough, isn’t buying that diplomatic ties between the two countries have never been so strained. ..."   

Israel's Chronological Nuclear Profile [03/15/10] "This annotated chronology is based on the data sources that follow each entry. Public sources often provide conflicting information on classified military programs. In some cases we are unable to resolve these discrepancies, in others we have deliberately refrained from doing so to highlight the potential influence of false or misleading information as it appeared over time. In many cases, we are unable to independently verify claims. Hence in reviewing this chronology, readers should take into account the credibility of the sources employed here. ..."  

Israel orders demolition of Nablus mosque [03/14/10] "Israeli authorities ordered the demolition of an under-construction mosque in the northern West Bank village of Burin on Sunday, head of the Palestinian Authority's settlement portfolio said. ..."  Note: A terribly provocative act.

Zionism Laid Bare [03/12/10] "In its early days, Zionism grew only because Herzl and his colleagues employed heavy lobbying in the European centers of power; Jewish dispersion across the Western world-and Jewish influence in the economies, the film industries, the media, and academia in key Western countries-are what enabled the Zionist movement to survive and thrive in the dark years of the early twentieth century; and Zionist lobbying and molding of public discourse are what has maintained Israel's favored place in the hearts and minds of Americans and the policy councils of America's politicians. ..."  Hillary to headline AIPAC conference  'Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be the keynote speaker at this month's annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, The Cable has confirmed. ..."  The dark face of Jewish nationalism   "Alan Sabrosky considers the characteristics that differentiate Jewish nationalism from other nationalisms, highlighting in particular its intrinsic extremism, its xenophobia, racism and militarism, its undermining of civic loyalty among its adherents in other countries and its propensity to hatred and racial exclusivity. ..."  Note: Pure sequentialism ... this is what it looks like. 

New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released [03/12/10] "Declassified files detailing an FBI investigation targeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are now available on the Internet. AIPAC was investigated after it acquired and circulated classified government information provided in strict confidence by US industry and worker groups opposed to AIPAC sponsored economic legislation. The 50 pages now available as portable document files (PDF) include: FBI reports of Israelis circulating classified documents in the US Congress, "compromising" the authority of the U.S. President. http://irmep.org/ila/economy/06201984.pdf US Trade Representative concerns that AIPAC was tactically "divulging" classified information supplied by US industries opposed to AIPAC lobbying initiatives. http://irmep.org/ila/economy/06211984.pdf  ..."   

Biden Suffers From Stockholm Syndrome: "US has no better friend than Israel" [03/12/10] Note: Tell that to the people Israel killed on 911 and with the USS Liberty. 

EU Parliament backs Goldstone Report on Israel's war crimes-Jerusalem Post [03/12/10] "In a move likely to worsen EU ties with Israel, the European Parliament urged its 27-member states Wednesday to monitor the Israeli and Palestinian probes into alleged war crimes in Gaza. The parliament also called on Israel to immediately open border crossings with the Gaza Strip, saying the blockade was worsening the humanitarian crisis there. The resolution backed the findings of a UN-appointed expert panel chaired by South African Judge Richard Goldstone, which concluded that both sides committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity throughout the IDF operation that began in December 2008 and ended in January 2009. The parliamentary move would give the EU an unprecedented role in evaluating the progress of Israel's war crimes probe ..."    

Israel aims its nuclear warheads at Europe [03/12/10] "The seventh Israeli radio broadcast an interview with Professor Martin Van-Crevel, a noted world specialist in low-intensity wars. Former Professor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Van-Crevel discussed publicly what he has been advocating for years in closed military academic circles in Israel and the United States. In his view, the continued struggle of the Palestinians will inexhorably lead to the collapse of the State of Israel. Which is why Tel-Aviv has no choice but to "transfer" the Israeli Arabs and the stateless Palestinians beyond safe borders (that is, not only outside the 1948 borders but also from the 1976 occupied territories and, ideally, from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip). In the event the Europeans opposed such a transfer, in order to survive Tel Aviv will be forced to destroy the European capitals with nuclear weapons, it being understood that the Europeans will be unable to retaliate without annihilating their Palestinian friends. “The Palestinians should all be deported. The people who strive for this (the Israeli government) are waiting only for the right man and the right time. Two years ago, only 7 or 8 per cent of Israelis were of the opinion that this would be the best solution, two months ago it was 33 per cent, and now, according to a Gallup poll, the figure is 44 percent.” The author of The Transformation of War forcefully stated that, as of now, there are already nuclear warheads aimed against Rome and other European capitals that render the threat credible and the "transfer" of the Palestinians possible. ..."  

Netanyahu: "My father foresaw 9/11 attacks in 1990s"  [03/12/10] "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that his father predicted the 9/11 attacks on New York’s twin towers back in the ’90s. Haaretz reported that the remark was made during the 100th birthday celebration of the premier’s father, Benzion Netanyahu, a historian and Zionist activist. ...The Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv on 17 April 2008 had reported that Benjamin Netanyahu, then Likud leader, told an audience at Bar Ilan University that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel. "We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma’ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in our favor." Professor Ben-Tzion Netanyahu was the personal secretary of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the father of Revisionist Zionism. During the 80’s and 90’s - together with his son Benjamin and George H. Bush Sr. - he was responsible for supervising the Jonathan Institute (named after his elder son, Jonathan, killed in battle) and for developing the concept of "international terrorism" which was echoed by the media far and wide. "   

Israel charges soldiers with misconduct in Gaza war [03/12/10] "Israeli army prosecutors on Thursday charged two soldiers for using a young Palestinian boy to check for booby-traps during last year's fighting in Gaza, a military spokeswoman told AFP. She said the two soldiers, both staff sergeants, were charged of acting "in breach of military norms" for forcing the boy to open bags they feared might be rigged with explosives. Israeli army radio said the boy was nine years old. The bags turned out to be harmless. No date was set for the trial. ...Israeli human rights group B'Tselem welcomed the move, but said an independent inquiry into the Gaza war was still needed. "Military police investigations are not the appropriate instrument to investigate allegations regarding operation Cast Lead," B'Tselem said in a statement in reference to the code-name of Israel's Gaza offensive. "Israel must appoint an Israeli body, external to the army, to conduct an independent and effective investigation," it said. The military said that it began its investigation of the incident in June last year. The probe was unrelated to a UN fact-finding mission which was visiting Gaza at the same time. The UN mission, headed by South African former judge Richard Goldstone, later filed a report which concluded that both the Israeli military and Palestinian militants committed war crimes during the 22-day conflict that erupted on December 27, 2008. Some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed during the offensive which Israel launched in response to rocket attacks from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip."    

Biden schmoozes in Israel: "US committed to Israel security" [03/10/10] "US Vice President Joe Biden, who is in Israel for 'proximity talks' between Israelis and the Palestinians, has regurgitated Washington's commitment to Israel's security. ..."  

 Commentary:  The Wicked Witch of the Middle East: Israel [03/10/10] "... Israel’s Recent Extreme Makeover–A Cure Worse Than The Disease Itself ...They are (put in apocalyptic language) beasts, and hell-bent on making this life as miserable as possible for everyone. And of those types, none better fits that description than the wicked witch of the Middle East, Israel. Merely consider her history. There’s never been a day in her life going all the way back to the earliest chapters of the Old Testament she wasn’t smiting, slaying, seducing or stealing from someone. By all appearances (and using her own family album as proof) it would seem she was a bad egg from the very moment she first set feet on earth and started hearing voices in her head telling her she was better than everyone else and destined to rule the world. ..."   

Top 10 U.S. Jewish politicians to watch in 2010  [03/07/10] "The Forward's list of 10 up-and-coming Jewish political hopefuls was compiled based on conversations with Republican and Democratic Jewish political activists. The list represents Jewish politicians who are either making their first steps on the national scene or are viewed as possible future leaders."  Note: Oh, they'll be watched, all right. Since they're mentioned in Israeli news, they must be sayanim. 

Dubai police chief on Mossad involvement in Hamas assassination [03/06/10] VIDEO [2:55]  "Israel has refused to confirm or deny any involvement in the January killing of Mahmoud Mabhouh, a Hamas commander, in a Dubai hotel. But Dahi Khalfan Tamim, the emirate's police chief in charge of the investigation, is convinced Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, sent a squad to Dubai to assassinate Mabhouh. Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan has this exlcusive interview with the man fast-becoming a hero across the Arab world for holding Israel to account.  ..."    

Iran wants IAEA to switch concern to Israel [03/06/10] "Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has urged the top nuclear body to switch its focus from Syria's atomic work to Israel's nuclear arsenal as the main cause for concern. ..."  

Baker: Israel must withdraw from Arab lands [03/05/10] "Former US Secretary of State James Baker yesterday praised his country's current administration for its efforts in trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but said Israel must withdraw from most Arab lands in order to maintain its "Jewish" and "democratic" identity. "Israel cannot continue to maintain its Jewish anddemocratic identity as long as it continues to occupy those Arab lands," Baker, who was the Secretary of State in the first Bush administration, told reporters in a question and answer session. ..."  Note:  Yeah, that will happen.

Human rights groups condemn Israel for blackmailing patients [03/05/10] "In a message to Israel's attorney general, three human rights organizations criticized Israeli intelligence agencies for blackmailing Palestinian patients in Gaza, exploiting their vulnerability in order to pressure them into collaborating with the occupation authorities. According to the organizations, a number of patients have been given false promises that they would be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip for medical care. However, once they reached the Beit Hanoun border crossing, they have been arrested and led to prisons inside Israel. ..."   

Support for Palestinians grows in UN [03/05/10] "Two unrelated diplomatic upsets have underlined growing impatience with the behavior of the Israeli government among western countries that are traditionally supportive. Backing from the European Union and Australia in the United Nations to sustain the issue of Israel's war crimes in Gaza more than a year ago has coincided with controversy over Israel's apparent use of western passports in the assassination of Mahmoud al Mabhouh, a Hamas official, in Dubai. Support for an Arab resolution last Friday at the UN - most EU countries voted in favor while others and Australia abstained - gave Israel and the Palestinians five more months to report back on progress in their respective investigations of war crimes alleged in a report by Richard Goldstone, a South African judge. The vote was a victory for the Palestinian delegation, which drafted the terms of the more moderate resolution compared with one influenced by Syria last November and that was voted down by many western countries, including Australia. ..."   

Israel mum on Dubai calls for Netanyahu arrest [03/04/10] "Israel has kept mum on Dubai calls for arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and the chief of Israeli spy agency, Mossad, over the assassination of a Hamas official. ..."  

Israel urges US to act alone, as anti-Iran bids fail [03/04/10] "As US Secretary of State (and Cunt-In-Chief) Hillary Clinton tours Latin America to recruit support for new international sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Tel Aviv urges Washington to adopt Cuba-like embargos against Tehran. Israel and the US accuse Iran of seeking nuclear arms, as Tel Aviv threatens to attack Iranian nuclear installations and Washington warns of keeping 'all options on the table,' including economic sanctions and military measures. Iran, however, says its program, which is extensively monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is directed at the civilian applications of the technology. The country has also called on all nuclear powers to abandon atomic weaponry and eliminate all such arsenal. ..."   

‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ starts today in 40 cities [03/02/10] "The sixth international Israeli Apartheid Week kicks off on Monday; with the "week-long" festivities taking place over 14 days in over 40 cities across the globe. Organizers say this year's events are meant to "educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement." The IAW's Web site says 2010's apartheid week "takes place following a year of incredible successes for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on the global level." Organizers say the event will not only push for an end to "colonization of all Arab lands" and the "full equality for Arab/Palestinian citizens of Israel," but also the dismantling of the West Bank security fence and the right of return for Palestinian refugees. ..."   

Israeli experts: Mabhouh assassination causes Hamas leaders to lay low [03/04/10] "Although the January assassination of Hamas military leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai has caused the organization's other leaders to disappear from public view, Hamas is expected to continue to rule with an iron grip in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli experts. "It's not going to have much impact on Hamas' activities and its ability to maintain power at least in the Gaza Strip because there is no alternative group with sufficient power to threaten them," said Avraham Sela, a professor of international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Middle East expert. But at the same time, its leaders are nowhere to be seen. ..."  

Israeli Professor – ‘We Could Destroy All European Capitals’ [03/04/10] "An Israeli professor and military historian hinted that Israel could avenge the holocaust by annihilating millions of Germans and other Europeans. Speaking during an interview which was published in Jerusalem Friday, Professor Martin Van Crevel said Israel had the capability of hitting most European capitals with nuclear weapons. “We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force  ...“Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that this will happen before Israel goes under.”"   Note: This is a flashback to statements made around 2003, I believe.

IOF adds new surveillance and radar systems to better detect 'moving targets' [03/04/10] "Israel has augmented its defenses along the Gaza border with new surveillance and radar systems capable of better detecting infiltrating Palestinians ..."   

12-year-old Child To Be Prosecuted As An Adult By An Israeli Military Court [03/04/10] "The Israeli Authorities decided to file charges against a 12-year-old Palestinian child from the southern West Bank city of Hebron after arresting him and charging him with throwing stones at the Israeli military.  ..."     

Israeli Nazis [03/02/10] VIDEO [4:00]  ""The grandchildren of Holocaust survivors from World War II are using tactics against the Palestinians that were used against their ancestors by Nazi Germany..." ..."   

The Decline of the Israeli Right and the Increasing Desperation of the 'Anti-Semitism' Charge [03/02/10] "The great divide between liberal Jewish Americans and the Israeli Right has lurked as an issue since the Likud Party first challenged Labor dominance in the late 1970s. It is now coming to a boiling point, even as Israel's reputation in the world is sinking. As rightwing policies more visibly fail, the Likudniks are flailing around making fools of themselves by smearing critics of those policies as racists. (Anyone who knows how Likud supporters talk among themselves about Arabs and other outsiders can only be amused at their impudent hypocrisy in playing the race card.) ..."   

Australia investigates more alleged Israeli spies [03/02/10] "The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is among a number of Western intelligence agencies investigating at least three dual Australian-Israeli citizens, who are suspected of being Israeli spies. ..." 

British journalist warns of Israeli plot to draw US into war with Iran [03/02/10] "A famous British journalist and author has warned that Israel wants to draw Washington into a war with Iran. But the US is not falling into the Israeli trap and every time the issue comes up, the White House dispatches a senior advisor from the national security department to Tel Aviv to say no to war. ..."   

Dubai police denies entry to Israelis [03/02/10] "In the wake of the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai — widely believed to have been carried out by Israel — travelers with Israeli passports will be denied entry to the United Arab Emirates. ..."    

Report: Dubai suspects traveled to U.S. [03/02/10] "Two people who allegedly participated in the killing of a Hamas leader may have entered the United States soon after his death, records indicate. ..."   

Israeli News: "US tells Lebanon can't stop Israeli strike" [03/02/10] "Al-Hayat newspaper says US secretary of state conveys message to Lebanese parliament speaker saying Washington cannot stop Israel from striking in Lebanon as long as arms smuggling to Hezbollah continues ..."  Note: The Cunt-In-Chief strikes again.  

Why it takes so many Mossad agents to kill a Palestinian with a Pillow by Gilad Atzmon [03/02/10] "While in Britain, France, USA and Argentina the Mossad enjoys the support of thousands of local Sayanim, Jews who are happy to betray their neighbours for their beloved Jewish state, when operating in Arab countries the Mossad has to schlep its very many assassins and their assistants using different fraudulent methods. Yet one may wonder why does it takes 26 Mossad agents to carry out a single murder of an unarmed Palestinian freedom fighter with a pillow*. I will try to throw some light on the puzzling question. ..." 

Israeli News: "Senator Kerry: Israel won't go alone on Iran - U.S is on "same page" [03/02/10] "US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry visiting Jerusalem today said the United States and Israel were “on the same page” regarding Iran’s nuclear program and called on the international community to take a tough stance against Iran's nuclear program and impose effective sanctions. ..."  Note: Kerry is a piece of work who ought to be in jail for treason and gross criminal negligence.

Israeli troops storm and encircle Aqsa Mosque [03/01/10] "The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday stormed the courtyards of the Aqsa Mosque and cordoned off its premises where dozens of Palestinian worshipers are still maintaining a vigil and refusing to leave for fear of attacks by Israeli extremists. Eyewitnesses said that more than 200 Israeli policemen have encircled the Aqsa Mosque since the early morning hours and demanded the worshipers come out, while the Palestinians inside the mosque used the amplifiers of the Mosque to urge fellow citizens to head to the Old City of occupied Jerusalem to defend it against Israeli violations. ..."   Related:  OIC chief condemns Israeli assault on Al-Aqsa  "Organization of the Islamic Conference Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has strongly condemned the Israeli troops' assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and warned of dangerous consequences. ..."  Hamas calls for action over assaults on Al-Aqsa Mosque "Hamas has called on Arab and Muslim states to impose pressure on Israel to force it to stop the raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to end its occupation of Palestine and its holy sites. ..."  Note: Israel continues the provocations toward a goal of a two-front war. 

UAE police: Most suspects of Dubai terror in Israel [02/28/10] "The police in the United Arab Emirates insist that most of the suspects behind the terrorist murder of a senior Hamas leader in Dubai will be found in Israel. ..."   

Iran slams Israel's atomic warheads, vows disarmament [02/28/10] "Iran's Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani censures Israeli possession of hundreds of nuclear warheads, urging countries across the globe to work collectively to rid the world of nuclear weapons. ..."     

 Analysis:  Absolute Proof Most Jews Are Not ‘True Jews’ [02/28/10] "The 13th Tribe’ by Arthur Koestler (suicided by Mossad) explains the creation of the European Khazar/Ashkenazi Jews who are descended from Huns, not Semitic peoples. ..."   Note: It's true. Those same German Jews were responsible for policies which led to the death of large numbers of non-Khazarian and non-Ashkennazi Jews from Eastern Europe and Europe and Russia ... German Jews perpetrated a Talmudic genocide on other Jews ... and now these sequential Jews run Israel and have infiltrated the USA. It's the sequential agenda and methodologies that are so bad.

Israeli DM: No Need to Coordinate With US on Attacking Iran [02/28/10] "At his visit to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), an AIPAC founded think tank, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak reiterated his calls for Western nations to keep “all options” open in moving against Iran. But more importantly, he suggested Israel might attack Iran even beyond American objections. “I don’t think that there is a need to coordinate in this regard,” Barak insisted, adding later in the speech that Israel has always “felt very proud that we never asked the Americans to come and fight for us.” ..."  Related: Netanyahu: Israel-Iran War Not Being Planned [02/19/10] "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday his country is not planning a war with Iran and that Tehran's concerns over such a conflict are the result of the threat of additional international sanctions. "We are not planning any wars," Netanyahu said, speaking in Moscow after meetings urging Russian officials to approve tougher sanctions against Iran. ..." US has " no plan for military action against Iran": Clinton [02/19/10]  Note:  The cunt-in-chief lies again. They have at least two plans for everything. What a difference 19 days makes.

Analysis:  The Mossad Role in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy [02/28/10] "Since November 22, 1963 many have spent vast amounts of time researching the assassination, putting forth a wide variety of theories. Most of the research has been devoted to what one more perceptive critic described as "a consuming preoccupation [with] the microanalytic searching for facts of how the assassination was accomplished," while at the same time, he points out "there has been almost no systematic thinking on why President Kennedy was killed." So while people have focused on how many assassins were involved, and how many shots they fired at JFK and where the shots came from and where the bullets hit, the real question of who was ultimately responsible for the assassination—not who fired the bullets, but who sponsored the assassins who fired those bullets—has been ignored. ..."   

Researcher claims that Israel performs sadistic, Nazi-like experiments on thousands of prisoners [02/27/10] "The Israeli occupation forces have been accused by a Palestinian Researcher of carrying out "thousands of experiments on Palestinian prisoners every year" which have lead to an increase in the number diagnosed with cancer. The specialist in Palestinian prisoners' affairs, Abdul Naser Ferwana, himself a former prisoner of the Israelis, claims that "more than five thousand experiments using serious drugs put prisoners' lives at risk". According to Ferwana's research, dozens of former prisoners have been diagnosed with cancer months and even years after their release; some have died while others are living with the disease. He believes that the experiments prisoners have been exposed to in prison are the direct cause of the high incidence of cancer in this section of the population. Deliberate medical neglect by the prison authorities also cannot be ruled out, he added. Ferwana accused the Israeli Ministry of Health of granting permits for conducting clinical trials for certain medication on detainees. He also accused the Israelis of building prisons and detention camps in the Negev desert, in particular, to subject the prisoners to environmental experiments and determine the effects on the environment and human beings in close proximity to the Dimona nuclear reactor and its toxic waste buried nearby. In early January the Israeli Environment Ministry published a report which warned of the presence of toxic waste, including nuclear waste and asbestos - both are carcinogens in the Negev area in which the prisons of Nafha and Reymon, and the Negev detention centre, are situated. This may, advised the ministry, cause malignant diseases including cancer due to being in the vicinity of the Dimona reactor. ..."  Note: Israel  "IsNOTReal" is adequately stocked with psychopaths ...

Mind Control: New Israeli Law Forbids Palestinians From Mourning Or "Showing Signs Of Sadness" [02/27/10] "A new law in Israel makes it a crime to commemorate what Palestinians call the "Nakba", the "catastrophe" of their dispossession by the creation of the Zionist state in 1948. The Knesset, Israel's parliament, has passed "The Nakba Draft Law" after just one reading. Penalties will be imposed on anyone showing signs of sadness and mourning within the (undefined) borders of Israel on 15 May; Palestinians remember on that day the creation of the refugee crisis that remains after 62 years. ..."   

Ex-Mossad agent: Israel uses 'false flag' in most ops to avoid suspicion in Arab states [02/27/10] "Israel's Mossad has regularly faked Australian passports for its spies, an ex-agent said on Thursday, as anger grew over the use of foreign travel documents for an alleged assassination. Former Mossad case officer Victor Ostrovsky told ABC public radio that the spy agency had used Australian passports for previous operations before last month's assassination of a top Hamas commander in Dubai that has been blamed on Israel. He said agents had little trouble passing themselves off as Australians as few people in the Middle East have much knowledge about the country. "Consider the fact that Australians speak English and it's an easy cover to take, very few people know very much about Australia," he said. "You can tell whatever stories you want. It doesn't take much of an accent to be an Australian or New Zealander, or an Englishman for that matter. "And I know people had been under Australian cover not once (but) quite a few times. So why not use it (again)?" Australia summoned the Israeli ambassador and warned that the countries' friendly ties were at risk after Dubai police named three Australian passport-holders in a list of new suspects in the murder of Mahmud al-Mabhuh. Britain, Ireland, France and Germany expressed similar outrage after people holding documents from their countries were also linked to the January 20 killing in a luxury Dubai hotel. ..."    

Mossad Agents with Fake Pass in Malta [02/27/10] "The assassination of Mohammed Mabhouh in Dubai was not the first International crime which Mossad death squads committed by using the fake or stolen European passports. There is a long record full of assassinations which were carried out by the Israeli death squads in Europe and in many other countries. The latest crime, the assassination of Mohammad Al-Mabhouh in Dubai and the full details which the police of Dubai exposed, raises once again the question about the relationship between the European countries and Israel, especially those countries in which the Mossad has carried out crimes in the past. ..."  

Israel is building a “museum of tolerance” right on top of an ancient Muslim cemetery [02/27/10] "As if all the persecution and brutalisation meted out to the Palestinians were not enough, Israeli authorities are finalising preparations for the construction of a museum on top of an ancient Muslim cemetery in West Jerusalem. ..."  Note:  typical move

Police recover DNA of Dubai hitmen [02/27/10] "Dubai police say they have recovered the DNA of assassins, who killed a senior Hamas commander in January. ..."    

Israeli Spy Networks Continue To Collapse In Lebanon [02/27/10] "In the latest developments in this context, a well-informed source told Al-Manar on Friday that the Lebanese army intelligence directorate has arrested two espionage networks serving the Zionist enemy, one in the north and the other in the south. ..."    

Lebanon arrests 6 more alleged spies [02/27/10] "The Lebanese army has arrested six more people on suspicion of spying for Israel, a security source has said. ..."    

Haaretz probe: Dubai assassins' passport photos were doctored [02/27/10] "The passport photographs of the agents who assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai were doctored so the agents would not be identified, a Haaretz probe has discovered. The discovery casts doubt on claims that the espionage agency that carried out last month's hit on the senior Hamas operative committed grave errors. Various features of the people in the photographs, such as eye color or the line of a lip, were changed - slightly enough so as not arouse suspicion at passport control, but still enough that the real agent could not be recognized. ..." 

Documentary:  Ryan Dawson presents: War By Way Of Deception [02/27/10] 4 Video clips  3 hours + "How a Zionist cabal planned and faked evidence and news stories to create a war with Iraq and the ultimate false flag 9/11. The Pentagon is the largest corporation in the world and it runs the US media top down and benefits from religious conflict which it helps to foster.  ..."  

Documentary:  Munich: Mossad’s Revenge (2006) [02/27/10] VIDEO [47:00]  "An examination of the role played by the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, in connection with eleven suspicious murders during the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. These murders were thought to have been revenge attacks for the murder of the Israeli athletes, and have always been officially denied by Israel; however, there is evidence ..."   

Flashback: New Zealand imposed diplomatic sanctions on Israel over Mossad operation in 2004 [02/26/10] "As soon as the sentences were handed down on July 15, Prime Minister Helen Clark issued a strongly-worded diplomatic rebuke. She said Israel had “demeaned the integrity” of the New Zealand passport system. Further, the incident constituted a serious breach of New Zealand’s sovereignty and had severely strained relations between the two countries. Her government had formally sought an explanation and apology from Israel at the time of the arrests three months earlier, but none had been forthcoming. ..."    

EU court rules customs duties must be paid for settlement products [02/26/10] "Europe's highest court ruled on Thursday that Israeli products manufactured in settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are not exempt from paying EU customs duties. Though nominally a finding on a trade-related matter, the decision has much wider political implications. ...In the mid-1990s, the EU signed separate agreements with Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), representing the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which allowed both to export industrial products to the EU duty-free. In a press release accompanying its decision on Thursday, however, the court in Luxembourg determined that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory constituted a "third party" not covered by those agreements. As a consequence, the court ruled, "products originating in the West Bank do not fall within the territorial scope of the EC-Israel Agreement and do not therefore quality for preferential treatment under that agreement." Germany as such has a right to impose duties on such products. The court's decision also touched on the issue of properly labelling the exact provenance of products, noting that "the Israeli authorities are obliged to provide sufficient information to enable the real origin of products to be determined.""   

Ireland seeks Israeli spy who assembled forged passport data [02/26/10] "As the number of suspects involved in the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh rose to 26 yesterday, Irish government sources said they suspect an Israeli agent in Dublin of orchestrating the acquisition of several Irish passports used in the assassination. ..."    Related:   Six more Britons had identities stolen by 'Mossad assassins'  "Police in Dubai now say 12 cloned British passports were used in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, as the total number of suspects rose to 26. ..." Dubai police identify 15 more suspects in Mabhouh murder

MSM: Dubai Police Release New Suspects in Hamas Hit [02/25/10] "Dubai Police say 15 new suspects have been identified as part of a ring that killed Hamas commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh in a hotel room last month. Fourteen of them purportedly used American credit cards from META Bank, a regional bank to pay for hotel rooms and travel arrangements. Some of the suspects identified today played a central role in the crime, others are accused of 'providing prior logistical support and preparations to facilitate,' making a series of trips to Dubai in advance of the January 20 killing. Earlier this month Dubai Police released CCTV footage of the suspects trailing their victim up to the moments of Mabhouh's death by suffocation. ..."  Related: Australia summons Israeli envoy over Dubai case   

Hamas founder’s son once top Israel spy, report says [02/25/10] "he son of one of Hamas’ founders served as a top informant for Israel for more than a decade, providing top-secret intelligence that helped prevent dozens of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israelis, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Mosab Hassan Yousef, dubbed as “the Green Prince” by his handlers, was one of the Shin Bet security service’s most valuable sources, Israel’s Haaretz daily said. ..."   

Israel Considers Law to Ban Remembrance of Israeli Displacement of Arabs in 1948 and Subsequent Persecution [02/25/10] [ Remembrance of the Nakba to be forbidden by law under consideration ] "The Nakba law is coming up again for consideration in the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, in a more moderate version than before but with the same motivation: to frighten everyone who wishes to commemorate the human and political tragedy that occurred in 1948, in which the Zionists expelled most of the Palestinian inhabitants of the country and the state of Israel destroyed most of the localities in which they lived. Those proposing the law hope to mobilize Zionist patriotism by threatening to forbid commemorating Independence Day as a day of mourning. They are blind, of course, to the historical context, and the development of that tradition among the displaced Palestinians who remained in Israeli territory. ..."  Note: Because 'our' holocaust is the ONLY real holocaust, because we said so. So there.  Related:  Hungarian lawmakers make Holocaust denial illegal   "Hungary's Parliament has passed a bill making Holocaust denial a criminal offense. The legislation, which would mandate prison terms of up to three years for those found guilty of publicly "denying, questioning or making light of the Holocaust," was approved Monday night in the presence of Jewish community leaders. ..."  

Israel sued for 'intentional' killing of Rachel Corrie [02/25/10] "The family of US activist Rachel Corrie, run over by an Israeli bulldozer during a demonstration in Gaza in 2003, will sue Tel Aviv over her death, their lawyer said on Wednesday. The 23-year-old killed at the height of the 2000 Palestinian intifada, or uprising, became an symbol of foreign support for the Palestinian cause and the subject of a 2005 play based on her emails and diary. ..."    

Mossad's most wanted: A deadly vengeance [02/24/10] "In just 60 years, Israel's secret service has become a byword for ruthlessness and audacity. As the storm surrounding its Dubai operation intensifies, Gordon Thomas, author of the definitive history of Mossad, reveals the inside story of its most daring hit ..."     Related: Mossad Death Squad Operations In Austria [Link has trouble loading]

Barak heads to U.S. to discuss Iran, peace talks with Palestinians [02/24/10]   Related: Israel turns to US for backup plan against Iran

EU officials call for international conference to discuss Palestinian state [02/24/10] "French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reiterated his call for the creation of a "viable" Palestinian state but has not ruled out the possibility the international community could recognise a new state before its borders were set. ..."  Note: Israel doesn't like this. 

Riots erupt over Israel's attempt to take over 'holy sites' [02/24/10] "Palestinian protesters threw bottles and stones at soldiers who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. The protesters say the move to list the shrines as heritage sites would restrict Muslims access to them, but this has been denied. ..."  Note: More from the sadistic Israelis.

Britain/EU sacrifice their own citizens' safety to protect Israel [02/24/10] "Amira Hass recently concluded in a commentary in Haaretz that "Israel...continues to spit in the face of friendly countries, and those countries continue to admire the falling raindrops." ..."    

Emirates says more fake Irish passports linked to Hamas slaying [02/24/10] "Emirati officials claimed Sunday that at least two more fake Irish passports have been linked to the alleged hit squad accused of killing a Hamas operative in Dubai, and urged European investigators to launch full-scale probes into passport fraud. The UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, said the Emirates is deeply concerned that the suspected assassins used expertly doctored passports from nations that don’t require advance UAE visas, allowing them to enter the country without scrutiny ..."  

Israel says needs 'proof' to break silence on Dubai hit [02/23/10] "Israel's Foreign Minister (and former nightclub bouncer) Avigdor Lieberman says there has been "no proof" that the regime was involved in the assassination of a senior Hamas official by a hit squad, using fake European documents. ..."  Related: 'Israel in diplomatic crisis over Dubai hit'  "Dubai police chief says the assassination of a senior Hamas official and "Mossad's involvement" have caused a diplomatic crisis for Tel Aviv. ..." Note: There's no proof they were not involved.  Mossad’s Murderous Reach: The Larger Political Issues – James Petras  "On January 19 Israel’s international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly ‘stolen’ from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake photos and signatures, in order to assassinate the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud al Mabhouh. The evidence is overwhelming: The Dubai police presentation of detailed [...]"  Warning urged for Israel on passports "EU foreign ministers should make it clear during meetings with their Israeli counterparts today that there will be serious repercussions if it proves true that Israel orchestrated the killing of a Hamas official by a hit squad using fake European passports, an Israeli historian has said in Dublin. ..." Meir Dagan: The Mastermind Behind Mossad’s Secret War  "In early January two black Audi A6 limousines drove up to the main gate of a building on a small hill in the northern suburbs of Tel Aviv: the headquarters of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence agency, known as the “midrasha”. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, stepped out of his car and was greeted by Meir Dagan, the 64-year-old head of the agency. Dagan, who has walked with a stick since he was injured in action as a young man, led Netanyahu and a general to a briefing room. ..." Israeli Immigration Officials Copied British Passports Used by Hit Squad, Ministers Told  |  Worker at Immigration/passport department issued passports to Mossad "As the controversy over the use of European passports by Israeli Mossad agents escalates, sources have revealed that at least of one of the documents used was likely issued by an employee in the immigration and passport department. ..."   

Latest collapse in Jerusalem blamed on Israeli excavations [02/23/10] "A street collapse near the entrance of the Bab Khan Az-Zeit market in the Old City of Jerusalem occurred on Sunday, as a result of Israeli excavations in the area, witnesses reported. "A two by one meter deep hole was left following the collapse," Ma'an's Jerusalem correspondent said. The latest collapse is reportedly related to ongoing Israeli archeological digs around the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which have caused a series of cave-ins around the Old City and in East Jerusalem neighborhoods. ..."  Note: Diggings meant to 'discover' manufactured 'evidence' of Isreali legitimacy ... and wreck existing sites favored by others.

Zionism and Nazism: is there a difference that makes a difference? [02/23/10] "Roger Tucker argues that Zionism and Nazism are "identical manifestations of the same basic pathology" and that they are "equally dangerous to the well being of humanity". He says that although Zionism ultimately cannot sustain itself, to be complacent would risk inflicting "immense harm" on humanity. ..."   Related: Eustace Mullins presents: The Neo-Zionist Order [02/23/10] VIDEO [108:40]  "Eustace Mullins argues that the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, drafted by German banker Paul Warburg and others in a secret meeting, defies Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 5 of the US Constitution by creating a “central bank of issue” for the United States. Mullins goes on to claim that World War I, the Agricultural Depression of 1920, the Great Depression of 1929, and Adolf Hitler’s rise to power were brought about by international banking interests in order to profit from conflict and economic instability. ..."  

Israel rejects recognition of Palestinian state [02/22/10] "Israel on Sunday rejected the idea of foreign countries recognising a Palestinian state without a negotiated peace agreement, after France's foreign minister hinted at such a scenario. "Imposing this kind of semblance of a partial solution from outside goes against the very idea of peace," a senior Israeli official told AFP on condition of anonymity. ..."  Note: Another provocation.

Dubai hit squad may have used diplomatic passports [02/22/10] "The hit squad that killed a senior Hamas official in Dubai may have entered the country using diplomatic passports, officials in the Emirates said yesterday as they called on Britain and other European countries whose documents were forged to launch a full inquiry. ..."  

Israel Unveils New Drone Fleet That Can Reach Iran [02/22/10] "Israel's air force on Sunday introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and could fly as far as the Persian Gulf, putting rival Iran within its range. ..."  Note: A provocation.

British Prime Minister: Israeli officials were part of decision to invade Iraq [02/22/10] "In his recent testimony to the UK Committee investigating the Iraq war, British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that Israeli officials influenced and participated in the decision by the US and UK governments to attack Iraq in 2003. ..."  

Israel PM aims to restore "Jewish holy sites" in West Bank [02/22/10] "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he hopes to include two hotly contested West Bank Jewish holy places in a plan to restore national heritage sites. Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, two holy sites inside Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank, were not originally included in the 100 million dollar (73 million euro) plan. ...The prime minister's spokesman, Mark Regev, said the final list of sites had not yet been decided, but would be based on "their importance to the history of the Jewish people ..."  Note: Uh huh.

Clinton criticized for dodging question on Israel nukes [02/21/10] "US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is criticized for dodging a question on Israel's nuclear arsenal during a "town hall" meeting at a Jeddah college. ..."  Note:  Cunt-in-chief fails again. Out to pasture she goes.

Did Britain know about Mossad hit? Israeli agent claims MI6 was tipped off [02/20/10] "MI6 was tipped off that Israeli agents were going to carry out an 'overseas operation' using fake British passports, it was claimed last night. A member of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, said the Foreign Office was also told hours before a Hamas terrorist chief was assassinated in Dubai. The tip-off did not say who the target would be or even where the hit squad would be in action. But the claim from a credible source that the Government had some prior knowledge of the abuse of UK passports will strengthen calls for ministers to come clean about what they knew and when. ..."  Related: Israel- UK paper says Mossad tipped off MI6 before Dubai operation "A British security source, who met the Mossad agent and has a track record of providing reliable information, told the Daily Mail: "This is a serving member of Israeli intelligence. He says the British government was told very, very briefly before the operation what was going to happen.  ..."  Note:  Very, very briefly ... sigh ... British threat to Israel over Dubai Hamas assassination "Ministers are understood to be furious that an alleged hit squad which murdered a Hamas leader in Dubai last month cloned the passports of six unsuspecting Britons, who are now living in fear of reprisals. Israel, which has not denied involvement in the murder, had previously promised that Mossad, its secret intelligence service, would never use British passports to help its agents carry out covert operations.  ..."  

‘The Invention of the Jewish People’ Frederic Raphael [02/20/10] "A best-selling author in Israel, Shlomo Sand argues there never was a Jewish people, only a Jewish religion, and explodes the myth of a unique nation with a special destiny.  ..."  Note: Page 2 |  Page 3  | Page 4

Growing diplomatic row over Dubai assassination [02/20/10] VIDEO [5:11]  "In this following interview the Guardian’s Robert Fisk lays out some likely scenarios regarding the fallout from the Mossad assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh who was a senior official with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. ..."  

Commentary: Time for Britain to hold Israel to account [02/20/10] "... Today, the British government is once again facing a serious test of its credibility following the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, a leader in the Hamas Palestinian movement, in Dubai. It has been reported in recent days that six of the individuals implicated in the plot carried British passports. Whether legitimate (as some evidence now indicates) or forged, it is an urgent matter not only of conscience for Britain but of a legal expediency to respond quickly and decisively. The use of British identity by the Israeli Mossad to carry out a political execution in a foreign territory, thus infringing upon the sovereign rights of the UAE, is clearly illegal. ..."   

Two Israeli spies sentenced to death in Lebanon [02/20/10] " A Lebanese court on Thursday sentenced two men to death on charges of espionage and involvement in the killing of senior members of Lebanese and Palestinian resistance groups. ..."  Note: That's going to be a provocation for Israel .. 

Israel's new strategy: "sabotage" and "attack" the global justice movement [02/20/10] "An extraordinary series of articles, reports and presentations by Israel's influential Reut Institute has identified the global movement for justice, equality and peace as an "existential threat" to Israel and called on the Israeli government to direct substantial resources to "attack" and possibly engage in criminal "sabotage" of this movement in what Reut believes are its various international "hubs" in London, Madrid, Toronto, the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. ..."  

Dubai release new info on assassination squad [02/20/10] "Dubai police say members of a terrorist team involved in the assassination of a senior Hamas commander in Dubai have used credit cards issued in the same names as their passports. ..."  

Questioning the US Special Relationship with Israel [02/19/10] "... "What also makes the relationship special is the incredible largess that the United States shows towards Israel, over the past decade, $28.9 billion in economic aid. And on top of that, another $30 billion in military aid, that's almost $60 billion. That's 10 times the GNP of Haiti that is being gifted to a small country. Now, I ask you, to what end is this money being used. Ladies and gentlemen, we would submit that it ends often inimical to the American interest." ..."  Note:  That makes it legally 'odious debt', which the taxpayers are legally not on the hook for, but are being forced to pay.

UN says Israeli settlements illegal [02/19/10] "The United Nations says Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are illegal and the stalemated peace process must commence. ..."  

Obama reverses Biden, warns Netanyahu publicly and privately on Iran [02/19/10] "Government sources said the administration of President Barack Obama relayed a warning to Israel that Washington has not changed its opposition to an Israeli strike option against Iran. ..."  

Israel downplays fake passport row with Europe [02/19/10] "Israel plays down the diplomatic row shrouding the terror of Hamas commander Mahmud al-Mabhouh in Dubai which is largely blamed on the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. ..."  

US congressman slams Israeli deputy foreign minister [02/19/10] "A visiting US congressman has lashed out at the Israel deputy foreign minister, saying he was snubbed by the Foreign Ministry and demanding an official clarification. ..."   

Interpol issues arrest warrants for 11 over Dubai hit [02/19/10] "Interpol has issued arrest warrants for 11 suspects accused of killing a senior Hamas official in Dubai last month. ..."     

Arab League chief: Arabs will defend Lebanon against Israel [02/19/10] "Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa says that Arab countries will stand by Lebanon, should it be attacked by Israel. ..."  

Mossad's license to kill [02/18/10] "The killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh bears the hallmarks of the ruthless Israeli intelligence service. One of the leading chroniclers of the agency gives a unique insight into its methods.  ... In the past year, al-Mabhouh had moved to the top of Mossad's list of targets, each of which must be legally approved under guidelines laid down over half a century ago by Meir Amit, the most innovative and ruthless director-general of the service. Born in Tiberius, King Herod's favourite city, Amit had established the rules for assassination ....  I first met Amit in 2001 and through him, I talked to the spies of Mossad, the katsas, and finally, to the assassins, the kidon, who take their name from the Hebrew word for bayonet. They helped me write the only book approved by Mossad, Gideon's Spies. Amit said the book "tells like it was – and like it is". Amit showed me a copy of those rules at our first meeting. After two years of training in the Mossad academy at Herzlia near Tel Aviv, each recruit to the kidon is given a copy. The killing in Dubai is a classic example of how Mossad goes about its work. Al-Mabhouh's 11 assassins had been chosen from the 48 current kidon, six of whom are women ....   The plan to assassinate Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had been finalised in a small conference room next to the office of Meir Dagan, who has run Mossad for the past eight years. The 10th director-general, Dagan has a reputation as a man who would not hesitate to walk into a nameless Arab alley with no more than a handgun in his pocket. Only he knows how many times he has asked a prime minister for legal permission to kill a terrorist who could not be brought to trial in an Israeli court, along with the kidon to whom he shows the legally stamped document, the licence to kill. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's name had been on such a document, which would have been signed by Benyamin Netanyahu. That, like every aspect of a kidon operation, would be firmly denied by a government spokesman, were he to be asked. This has not stopped Dubai's police chief, Lt-General Tamin, from fulminating against the Israeli prime minister ..... "  Note: Very interesting and well worth a read.  Related: Answers to questions about al-Mabhouh’s assassination |  At least five Israelis 'share names with Dubai hit squad suspects' "One of the Israelis, U.K.-born Melvyn Adam Mildiner, said he was "angry, upset and scared" over what he swears is a misidentification after Dubai police listed a British national with the same name as one of 11 Europeans suspected of killing Mabhouh in a luxury hotel in the Gulf emirate last month. Two other British-born Israelis, Paul Kealy and Stephen Hodes, were also named by Dubai, as was another Israeli, Michael Bundheimer, an immigrant to Israel from the United States. ..."   ABC: Dubai Hit Squad: U.K. Government Demands Answers from Israelis "On Thursday morning the Israeli ambassador in London will be summoned for talks with the British Foreign Ministry. He will be questioned about the apparent use of forged British passports in the assassination of Hamas's Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai. The incident is developing into a serious diplomatic incident between London and Tel Aviv. ..."  MSNBC: Video: Hamas official accused of helping Mossad hit squad  "Israel will not confirm or deny it was behind last month's assassination of a senior Hamas leader carried out by a professional hit squad. NBC's Richard Engel reports.  ..."  Hamas calls for retaliation against Israel  "Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal has called on Palestinian fighters to retaliate for Israel's assassination of the movement's top commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month. ..." Israel says no proof it carried out Hamas Dubai killing "  Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday said that there was no proof Israel's Mossad spy agency was behind the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month, after it emerged that some members of the hit squad involved in the killing had used the identities of foreign-born Israelis. Lieberman did not deny outright Israeli involvement in the killing of Hamas's Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel, saying only that Israel has a "policy of ambiguity" on intelligence matters and there was no proof it was behind the assassination."  ABC: Israel's Greatest Hits: Before Dubai, a History of Targeted Killing [02/18/10] "When a group of harmless looking tourists reportedly employed fake passports and elaborate disguises to kill a top Hamas leader in his Dubai hotel room last month, the hit had all the hallmarks of an Israeli assassination, according to former CIA officer Robert Baer. Such operations would be nothing new for Israeli intelligence, Baer said. ... ABC: Israel's Alleged 'Hit Squad' Shocks Even Israelis |Israel's history of state-sponsored assassination | Israeli Hit Squad? Dubai Police Issue International Warrants | After Dubai hit, Israelis question Mossad methods  "The quiet assassination of a Hamas commander gets unexpectedly messy. Exposed and forced to atone before angry allies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders the spymaster responsible to fall on his sword. That was in 1997, when the Mossad director resigned after his men botched the poisoning of Khaled Meshaal in Jordan. Now premier a second time, Netanyahu faces a similar crisis over the death of another Hamas figure, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in Dubai.

Analysis: US Spy’s Israel Ties Deeper Than First Thought  [02/18/10] "Stewart David Nozette, an American scientist arrested for attempted espionage during an FBI sting last October, had deeper ties to Israel than initially believed. Nozette, a former employee of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was arrested for attempting to share classified US government data with an undercover FBI officer posing as a handler of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. At the time of Nozette’s arrest, the US Justice Department argued for keeping him in jail, as he “might flee to Israel if not confined”. Interestingly, however, US officials said at the time that Israel had no role in Nozette’s attempted espionage, and the FBI’s own indictment admitted that the Bureau “does not allege that the government of Israel or anyone acting on its behalf committed any offense under US laws in this case”. Shortly after Nozette’s arrest, we raised two important counterintelligence questions: first, how did the FBI know to lure Nozette with an agent posing as an Israeli –as opposed to a Russian or Chinese– handler? Second, why would Nozette flee to –and presumably be protected by– Israel, even though the government of Israel was not involved in this case, according to the FBI? We then suggested that Nozette’s connection to Israel, through his most recent employer, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), was probably much deeper than the FBI was prepared to admit publicly. ..."    

Israeli minister in handshake debacle with Saudi spy chief [02/18/10] "Much has been made of an episode in the recent Munich Security Conference, in which Israel’s deputy foreign minister shook hands with Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence director. As is often the case in international conferences involving high-level participants from Israel and Muslim states, organizers at the Munich Security Conference went out of their way to ensure that Egyptian, Saudi, and –lately– Turkish government representatives were not to meet in the same seminars with Israeli officials. Participants were surprised, however, to see Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief, Prince Turki bin Faisal al-Saud, present in a seminar that featured a panel contribution by Israeli deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. During the remarks session, Ayalon expressed dissatisfaction with the Muslim participants’ insistence to stay clear of the Israeli delegation, to which Turki al-Faisal responded with reference to Israel’s recent diplomatic spat with the Turkish government. ..."  

Mossad Assassination Squad Entered Dubai Using British Passports [02/17/10] includes VIDEO [2:29]  "Police in the Gulf state announced that they were hunting for 11 suspects, including a woman, for the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a top Hamas commander, who was found dead in his Dubai hotel room on January 20. Six of these suspects were travelling on British passports and three were carrying Irish passports, including the woman. The other two entered Dubai with German and French passports. “We have no doubts that it was 11 people holding these passports, and we regret that they used the travel documents of friendly countries,” said Lieutenant-General Dhafi Khalfan, Dubai’s chief of police.  ... One former Mossad agent confirmed that the organisation regularly used foreign passports for travel abroad on secret missions. “Sometimes these were legitimate passports of people who held dual citizenship, other times they were acquired,” he said. “An Israeli passport raises red flags and is best avoided.” He said that he did not know if Israel was involved in the Dubai murder or had used foreign passports there. Israeli agents have been responsible for numerous assassinations in Europe and across the Middle East over the past 40 years, often posing as foreigners. In 2004 the authorities in New Zealand disclosed that Mossad was securing their country’s passports through the Israeli Embassy in Australia. During a trial in Auckland, allegations also surfaced that Mossad was using Canadian passports. "  Related: Dubai seeks '11 Europeans' for Hamas killing | "UK Embassy spying for US, Israel": Iran MP |  UK: Mossad behind terror of Hamas commander | Video: Hit squad had license to kill  [2:01]   'Dubai hit squad stole my identity': British man's name used by assassins who executed senior Hamas leader [02/17/10] "A British man in Israel with the same name as an alleged member of a hit squad that assassinated a top Hamas militant in Dubai said his identity had been stolen. Melvyn Adam Mildiner said he was 'angry, upset and scared' over what he called a misidentification. He spoke as the Foreign Office confirmed the British passports used in the killing were fraudulent. The FCO has launched an investigation, it said in a statement. ..."     Note: Interesting that the UK would be 'spying for Israel' and at the same time admitting the Mossad were involved. Duplicity is not new, of course. Quite a game they've got going here.

Saudi Arabia: Efforts to rid Mideast of nukes must apply to Israel [02/17/10] "Amid growing Western efforts to impose harsher measures against Iran over its contentious nuclear, Saudi Arabia expressed doubts on Monday about the usefulness of imposing more sanctions. Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal told a news conference alongside U.S. Secretary in Riyadh that the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions demands a more immediate solution than sanctions. The Saudi minister also said efforts supported by the U.S. to rid the Middle East of nuclear weapons must apply to Israel. Before leaving Qatar for Riyadh earlier Monday, [Hillary] Clinton said that the United States believes Iran's Revolutionary Guards are driving the country towards military dictatorship and should be targeted in any new UN sanctions. Clinton denied the United States planned to attack Iran and said Washington wanted dialogue with Tehran but could not "stand idly by" while Iran pursued a suspected nuclear weapons program. ..."  Related: S Arabia calls for prompt resolution of Iran nuclear issue "Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has called for an “immediate resolution” of the dispute over Iran's nuclear program. ..."  Note:  If it's convenient, of course. The Saudi's can't 'demand' anything, any more than any other country can.

Netanyahu to Hamas: Israel's offer for Shalit is final [02/17/10] "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to tell Hamas that Israel will not sweeten its offer for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. Meanwhile, Medvedev told his Israeli visitor that Russia will hold off on delivering an advanced air defense system, the S-300, to Iran. Netanyahu asked Medvedev to tell Hamas that Israel wants to make a deal for Shalit, but will not agree to release more Palestinian prisoners than it has already. The Russian president offered Moscow's help in the talks.  ... 

Perspectives on Zionism [02/17/10] "Paul J. Balles views some of the latest works exposing the activities of Zionists in the Middle East where Israeli barbarism manifests itself in indiscriminate "killing for the sake of killing", to the United States where the pro-Israel lobby "has long held the US Congress in thrall, strangling what little is left of American democracy". ..."  

Global Battle With Mental Illness Continues: "Saving Jews From John Hagee" [02/17/10] "The fact that Hagee’s empire has been built on apocalyptic end times prophecy is clear in the advertisement that precedes the DVD version of the sermon. The marketing of these sermons by John Hagee Ministries, Inc. is one of the ways that Hagee became the highest paid head of a non-profit in San Antonio in 2004, with his more than a million dollar income “nearly twice that of the next best-paid executive.” This two minute promo is for “Prophecy in the 21st Century,” a four-part sermon series, one of which includes a virulent attack on Roman Catholicism that parallels a 19th century conspiracy theory that has been used to demonize both Catholics and Jews. Many of Hagee’s marketed products more closely resemble a John Birch Society screed than an evangelical sermon....Jewish leaders daily face the decision whether to publicly partner with, and accept the flow of funding from Hagee, CUFI and Christian Zionists who provide a definition of Zionism and “blessing Israel” for millions worldwide. Despite the fact that Christian leaders from across the denominational spectrum have rejected Hagee’s millennialist theology for an array of reasons, he has been empowered by those in Jewish leadership who have given him awards, compared him to Moses, participated in CUFI activities, and invited him to speak at AIPAC’s 2007 convention. When these leaders stand with John Hagee, they provide legitimacy for his agenda and fan the flames of millennial frenzy. ..."   

The Thirteenth Tribe: Absolute Proof More Modern Jews Not Biblical Israelites [02/17/10] "The Jews of our times fall into two main divisions: Sephardim and Ashkenazim. The Sephardim are descendants of the Jews who since antiquity had lived in Spain (in Hebrew Sepharad) until they were expelled at the end of the fifteenth century and settled in the countries bordering the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and to a lesser extent in Western Europe. They spoke a Spanish-Hebrew dialect, Ladino, and preserved their own traditions and religious rites. In the 1960s, the number of Sephardim was estimated at 500,000. The Ashkenazim, at the same period, numbered about eleven million. Thus, in common parlance, Jew is practically synonymous with Ashkenazi Jew. ..."  

Foreign Ministry slams envoy's comments about 'yellow race'  [02/17/10] "The Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned remarks by the Israeli ambassador to Australia in which he told Haaretz that the two countries are white sisters amid "the yellow race" of Asia. "If the article is accurate, this is a grave and unacceptable remark," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said it will not return to business as usual if an internal examination confirms that the ambassador, Naftali Tamir, in fact made the comments attributed to him.  ..."  Note: What a crock o' shit.

AIPAC Officials Duplicated Classified Policy Documents Before Returning to US Government [02/16/10] "Top officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee duplicated a stolen classified US government policy document before returning it under order of the US Trade Representative. ..."  

Former Israeli Counter Terrorist Agent Juval Aviv, on Fox News, Warns "Next US Terror Attack Within 90 Days At Most" [02/16/10] "... Since mass transportation is the next attack, when you travel  ..."  Note: How would he know that mass transportation would be hit? Unless it again is the Mossad doing it. Check this page out: The Controversy of Juval Aviv also includes  VIDEO [6:42] of Aviv  Note:  Google Search Results on Juval Aviv 

Flashback: It was Israelis, not Muslims, who trained their cameras on the WTC prior to the first aircraft impact [02/16/10] " It wasn't Muslims who trained their cameras on the World Trade Center Towers prior to the first aircraft impact, who danced and celebrated with high fives prior to the second impact as most onlookers still believed it had been a terrible accident rather than terrorism, and who were caught with foreign passports, $4,700 in cash hidden in a sock, maps highlighting certain places in the city, and a van that tested positive for traces of explosives; it was Israelis Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner, and Omer Marmari, several of whom have been confirmed as Mossad agents, as part of their job in "documenting the event". ..."  

Zionism unmasked [02/15/10] "Jeff Gates analyses Zionism as “a strategy for targeting thought and emotion as a means to influence behaviour” and “a mental state that manifests as a dispersed form of internalized nationalism—a diaspora—that binds to an extremist enclave those who may never set foot there”. He argues that Zionism "relies for its success on deception and self-deceit". ”Law is irrelevant to those who consider themselves above the law. Morality and conscience are of no concern to those who consider themselves The Chosen—by a god of their own choosing. Such a nationalist ideology has no place in a system of nation states dedicated to the rule of law.” ..."   

Israel faces global delegitimization campaign - Ha'aretz [02/14/10] "Israel is facing a global campaign of delegitimization, according to a report by the Reut Institute, [a] Tel Aviv-based security and socioeconomic think tank [that has] called on ministers to treat the matter as a strategic threat. The report cites anti-Israel demonstrations on campuses, protests when Israeli athletes compete abroad, moves in Europe to boycott Israeli products, and threats of arrest warrants for Israeli leaders visiting London.  ..."  Related:   The new McCarthyism sweeping Israel   "To disagree with the state is to ‘delegitimise’ the state: that is the increasingly strident response of the country’s political and military establishment to those who dare to criticise its conduct ..."  

Israel not able to attack Iran, ex-IDF chief says [02/14/10] "Former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Dan Halutz says Tel Aviv is not able to launch a preemptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. ..." 

Israeli deputy FM hints at ethnic cleansing policy [02/14/10] "Israel is trying to get rid of Arab Israelis from occupied lands with plans to transfer them to a future Palestinian state. ..."   

Arab “Terrorism” Vs Jewish Eternal “Victimization [02/14/10] "My visit to Yad Vashem in 2006, during the war with Lebanon, was a painful lesson. The museum of the Shoah is being used to indoctrinate young Israelis, esp. the military, that the whole world is and always has been against the Jews, and that the only solution is for Israelis to be firm and resolute against the whole world, even if it means being inhuman to the Palestinians. ..."   

The Golden Goose Of Holocau$tianity and The Real Reasons For Irana-phobia [02/13/10] "Given that–by all appearances–a bucket of gasoline is about to be thrown on an already out-of-control-fire in the Middle East viz a viz an attack on Iran for completely irrational reasons, it is worth pondering the big “WHY?” regarding the Jewish state’s obvious-to- a-blind-man maniacal drive to see that nation and her 70 million people wiped off the map. After all, the indicators (from agencies no less in authority than the IAEA as well as the United States’ intelligence community as delineated in the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate) are that Iran is the one with clean hands here. Not a single neutron has been discovered even suggesting Iran is what she’s portrayed being by Jewish interests, namely a maniacal, fanatical, messianic nation bent upon destroying the world. Of course the easy answer (and the one most folks who’ve spent any time dealing with the Jewish question will give) is that this is business as usual when it comes to these people and their historic, organic sense of paranoia. Tragically, they are a people whose entire identity is wrapped up in categorizing slights and insults going back thousands of years, who “dunnit” and who’s planning to do it today and tomorrow, and all of it the result of envy and jealousy on the other guy’s part and never anything related to aberrant Jewish behavior. The other reason is slightly technical in its politics, dealing with Israel’s insistence upon being the only superpower in the Middle East, which certainly makes sense. After all, how can you maintain the very notion upon which the Jewish state is based–meaning it is the very headquarters of God Himself since it is the homeland of His chosen people–if there is someone more powerful in the region than her, similar to the evil queen in Snow White and how she had to eliminate her competition if she were to maintain the notion of her own unsurpassed and unchallenged beauty. The other possibility is a bit darker, but just as credible in the bigger scheme of things, albeit somewhat difficult for otherwise sane-minded individuals (meaning those not tainted with this dangerously addictive substance known as Jewish thinking) to comprehend. ..." Related: Canada’s Effort to Criminalize Criticism of Israel  "Israel’s siege of Gaza has made it a “closed zone” – no access, no exit, cut off from the world. By attempting to shut down criticism of Israel’s practices, Canadian supporters of the government of Israel are creating another “closed zone” in Canada – in which criticism, open debate, and freedom of expression will not be allowed. ..."  

The Real Story Behind Israel's Attack On Gaza [02/13/10] "Deliberate Attacks against the Civilian Population, Factual Findings narrated by Ross Vachon, Factual and Legal findings narrated by Noam Chomsky, and Live Testimonies relevant to the Goldstone Report's Findings ..."   

"You’re an Anti-Semite If You’re Against War" [02/13/10] " One misses the days when those working for peace and standing up for war’s victims were merely pinko-commie queers. Now, they’re "anti-Semites". Over at the pages of the New Republic (TNR) is a raging debate over whether neo-con/neo-liberal/neo Andrew Sullivan is per force an anti-Semite as he directs his commentary—as he has the last few years—onto victims of Israeli militarism."  Note:  I will be happy to see the vaporization of the stupid.

US' Expanded Weapons Stockpiling in Israel [02/11/10] "According to a January 11 report in the weekly paper Defense News, the Obama administration previously mapped out a plan that would place $400 million worth of military arsenal in Israel, but that project was exactly doubled after a meeting in December between the Israeli military's technology and logistics branch, and Rear Adm. Andy Brown, logistics director of the US Army European Command. Included in this agreement is the caveat that Israel, after approval from the US government, would be able to access the American weapon and ammunition stockpile in case of a military "emergency." The terms and definition of such an "emergency," including against whom the weaponry could be used, remain unclear. ..."   

How Much Military Aid to Israel.. By State [02/11/10] "Interactive Map included --- Between 2009-2018, the United States is scheduled to give Israel--the largest recipient of U.S. aid--$30 billion in military aid. Through its illegal 42-year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, Israel misuses U.S. weapons in violation of U.S. law to kill and injure Palestinian civilians, destroy Palestinian civilian infrastructure, blockade the Gaza Strip, and build illegal settlements in West Bank and East Jerusalem. ..."   

Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Israel, a smoking gun? [02/11/10] "Dr. Hilal Khashan, a Palestinian-American scholar chairing of Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut, said that "the war is looming." 

A Closer Look at Israel’s Role in Terrorism [02/10/10] "Game theory war-planners rely on mathematical models to anticipate and shape outcomes with staged provocations. For the agent provocateur, the reactions to a provocation—as well as the reactions to those reactions—thereby become predictable within an acceptable range of probabilities. With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan poised to expand to Iran and Pakistan, it is time to take a closer look at how conflicts are catalyzed—by way of deception. ..."   

Christmas Day Crotch Bomber Tied to Israel, FBI [02/10/10] "How did a young Nigerian Muslim without a passport “slip through” security at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport? Not only did his itinerary feature an illogical travel route, he paid cash for a high-priced last-min ICTS International, the security screening company at Schiphol, was founded by former members of Shin Bet, Israel’s civil security agency, and Israeli executives in charge of El Al security. ICTS had already proven its expertise in mounting this type of operation. ..."   

Prof. Francis Boyle: Israel Is Committing Genocide [02/09/10] "“What we’re seeing in Gaza now, is pretty much slow-motion genocide against the 1.5 million Palestinians who live in Gaza…. If you read the 1948 Genocide Convention, it clearly says that one instance of genocide is the deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of a people in whole or in part,” stated Francis A. Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois in Champaign. “And that’s exactly what has been done to Gaza, since the imposition of the blockade by Israel; then the massacre of 1,400 Palestinians, two-thirds of whom were civilians, in Operation Cast Lead. And that also raises the element in the Genocide Convention, of murder, torture, and things of that nature.” ..."  

Riyadh urges firm stance on Israeli war threats [02/09/10] "Saudi Arabia has called on the international community to take a 'rigorous position' against Israel's saber-rattling against Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinians. ..."   

Senate Passes AIPAC's Iran Sanctions Bill in Five Minutes [02/09/10] "Not everyone was happy that it passed by voice vote. It's an election year and senators want some Iran-bashing credit with their donors. ..."     

Jewish Holocaust Survivor Speaks Out Against Israel [02/09/10] VIDEO [3:49]  "This is an excellent speech about the parallels between the Israelis now and the Germans in the 2nd world war. ..."  :  

Iran vs Israel: What The Media Wants You To Forget  [02/09/10] "The corporate media have been given their orders to throw the focus back on to Iran.
Here is a recap of what they are trying to make you forget. ..."   

The Israeli-US Unbreakable Relations [02/09/10] ".... Another key reason behind the failure of the US peace diplomacy in the Middle East is the US reluctance and consistent refusal to exert meaningful pressure on Israel to abide by international law, which further emboldened Israel and made the Jewish state bask undisturbed in its rejectionism and arrogance of power. ..."  

Netanyahu makes every anti-Iran effort in Russia [02/09/10] "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Moscow to persuade the Kremlin into backing tougher sanctions against Iran, days after media reports revealed that Tel Aviv has dispatched two warships to the Persian Gulf. The three-day trip, planned weeks ago, will see Netanyahu making every effort in convincing Russian government officials to join the Western-led campaign for additional sanctions against Iran's enrichment activities. ..."   

Hamas leader: No prospects for talks [02/09/10] "Khaled Meshaal, leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, says there's no prospect of successful peace talks with Israel. ..."   

'Syria to back Lebanon in case of Israeli attack' [02/08/10] "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday that Damascus would stand by Beirut, should Israel launch another war on Lebanon. ..."  

Israeli conservatives target U.S.-based philanthropy [02/08/10] "Nationalist groups accuse the New Israel Fund of seeking to undermine Israel, alleging that rights groups it has sponsored provided most of the testimony to a U.N. panel on the Gaza war. ..."    

Is it just the calm before the storm in Israel? [02/07/10] "It's been a year since the election that brought Benjamin Netanyahu to power in Israel and, for most Israelis, it's been the best year in recent memory. There has been almost no violence or breaches of security, and the country's economy weathered the world recession remarkably well. Israelis, for the most part, feel safe and secure, and the Prime Minister's rating in public opinion surveys reflects that satisfaction: Netanyahu is retaining his hold on his centre-right supporters and is gaining support among voters in the centre and on the left. The only drop he has suffered is among voters of the far right who reject his temporary freeze on construction in some Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Now, it seems, 2010 is supposed to be even calmer. The country's annual intelligence assessment released this week spoke of "low probability of war" and little likelihood of serious clashes. But as veteran Israeli observers will tell you, when you hear such rosy forecasts, it's time to head for the shelters. "Experience in the Middle East shows that calm can turn into tension, and tension can turn into war, in an instant," wrote Aluf Benn in yesterday's Haaretz newspaper. A flare-up in sabre-rattling with Syria is the exception that proved the rule. Syrian officials warned that, if there were a war, Israeli cities would become targets, and that drew a bellicose response from Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who said that, in that event, the Assad regime would be toppled. ..."  

Israel stole 2 billion dollars from Palestinian workers: 40-year deception exposed [02/05/10] "Over the past four decades Israel has defrauded Palestinians working inside Israel of more than two billion US dollars by deducting from their salaries contributions for welfare benefits to which they were never entitled, Israeli economists have revealed. ..."  

Israel threatens force over Iran nuclear standoff [02/05/10] "Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon raised on Wednesday the possibility of using force to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, something Tehran vehemently denies it is seeking. AFP February 4, 2010 “Iran’s plan will probably be stopped by a regime change or, if there is no other choice, by a recourse to force ..."  

Zionism and Herzl: The Antisemitic Side of Zionism [02/04/10] VIDEO [90:00]  Note: Wow!! This is really suppressed info. This is so ironic. Herzl's ideology, which came by virtue of his immersion in gentile society, was that the goyim were the "epitome of purity and perfection". (Time ref 4:43-4:49). This video is in Hebrew with English subtitles. Boy, I betcha this is suppressed info in Israel, especially considering that the big conference that have every year is in Herzylia, also home to the Mossad. It also illustrates the dynamic wherein the Ultra-Orthodox, who are visibly mentally unbalanced, are causing huge problems in Israeli society, etc ... the same racism and infighting between factions has never, and will never go away ... Israel will eventually implode from within.

American Radical (2009) [02/04/10] VIDEO [90:00] "About the life and work of controversial American Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein.  ..."   

Norman Finkelstein: “The Coming Breakup of American Zionism” [02/04/10] VIDEO [86:27] "Independent scholar and author, Norman Finkelstein, speaking at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington."  Note:  Part 2 VIDEO [55:58] Related: Finkelstein - Israel & Palestine: Roots of Conflict  VIDEO [102:43]   Part 2 - Q&A VIDEO [28:45]   

Hamas: EU must stop letting Israeli spies use its passports [02/04/10] "Palestinian militant group Hamas has demanded the European Union work to prevent Israeli security services from using EU passports to carry out "targeted assassination" attempts after the killing of one of its leading members in Dubai. ..."  

Shoe Bombers, Crotch Bombers, 9/11 and Israel [02/04/10] VIDEO [86:27] "How much has Israeli control of American foreign policy cost the people of the United States? The government and media has worked mightily to keep the American people from fully realizing that the Zionist domination of our politics and support for the murderous Israeli regime, has directly led to 9/11 and other acts of terrorism [...]"  

Berlusconi pledges to stand by Israel [02/04/10] "Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says his country will stand by Israel in the worldwide fight against anti-Semitism. ..."  Note: What a stupid thug ...

Israelis Favor New Strike on Gaza Despite Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis [02/04/10] VIDEO [7:20] Note: It will be so nice when all of this is over. Sigh.

"Gang of 54" Congressmen Slammed for Censuring Israel [02/04/10] "An American-Israeli action group has strongly criticized a group of 54 U.S. Congress members for accusing Israel of inflicting “collective punishment” on the residents of Gaza. ..."  Note: They did inflict collective punishment. They're criminally insane psychopaths and sociopaths.

Fisk: Real danger to Israel's legitimacy is Israel itself [02/03/10] "So the propaganda war is on. Forget Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the 15,000 Lebanese and Palestinian dead. Forget the Sabra and Shatila massacre that same year by Israel's militia allies as their troops watched. Erase the Qana massacre of 1996 - 106 Lebanese killed by Israeli shellfire, more than half of them children - and delete the 1,500 in the 2006 Lebanon war. And forget, of course, the more than 1,300 Palestinians slaughtered by Israel in Gaza last year (and the 13 Israelis killed by Hamas at that time) after Hamas rockets fell on Sderot. Israel - if you believe the security elite of Israel's right wing here in Herzliya - is now under an even more dangerous, near-unprecedented attack. Britain - this came yesterday from Israel's ambassador in London, no less - is "a battlefield" in which Israel's enemies wish to "de-legitimise" the 62-year-old Jewish state. Even Israel's erstwhile friend, that fine Jewish judge Richard Goldstone, is now, in the words of one of Israel's staunchest American-Jewish supporters, Al Dershowitz, an "absolute traitor to the Jewish people" and "an evil, evil man" ..."  Note:  Interesting article, worth a read.     Related: Annual Herzliya Conference underway in Israel: a soup-to-nuts discussion of Israeli security and economic issues Note: Herlliya is also the home of the Mossad and many other factions. Israeli policy decisions are made here, each year.

Israeli commander: 'We rewrote the rules of war for Gaza' [02/03/10] "A high-ranking officer has acknowledged for the first time that the Israeli army went beyond its previous rules of engagement on the protection of civilian lives in order to minimise military casualties during last year's Gaza war, The Independent can reveal. ..."   

Dr. Norman Finkelstein at University of Waterloo [02/03/10] VIDEO [3:11]  "Dr. Finkelstein teaching Jewish youngsters a thing or two. ..."   

Israel Laughs At Haitian Disaster [02/03/10] VIDEO [3:19] "January 27, 2010 at 7:32 pm (Chutzpah, Haiti, Israel) So sad but true….. as can be seen in the ‘comedy’ news report on the earthquake in Haiti..."    Note: Pathetic. Sigh.

Self-destructive potential overwhelming Israeli society [02/02/10] " .... The State of Israel is sliding down a slippery slope, into chaos. This country has exceptional potential for growth and a good life, yet the self-destruction potential overwhelms everything else. Here too, it seems, people can do whatever they want and get away with it. To outside observers who have been arriving in the Jewish State as of late, it appears that the government and law enforcement authorities around here have lost control. And these observers are probably right. There is no fear of the law whatsoever. And what’s worse, the laws of the jungle already dominate part of our lives.  ... People shoot at each other on the streets here. Crime families laugh in the face of police officers at court. Streets and towns are being built without permits. Motorists hit and run. Tax evasion has turned into our national sport. People are murdered because of a 10-shekel debt or because they uttered a curse, or just for the hell of it. The latest buzz word around here is governability. People say that there is no governability. Bureaucracy is eating us up. Law enforcement efforts encounter a blatant and ongoing disregard. The police are despaired, our judges show mercy, and the feeling we get is that there is no master in this house. There is nobody to put things in order. Indeed, the man who hurled his shoes at Chief Justice Beinish Wednesday is merely one manifestation of the disorganized mess that has emerged around here. "  

Israel Admits Hitting U.N. in Gaza With White Phosphorous [02/02/10] "An Israeli report to the U.N. put out with the trash Friday acknowledged that military commanders recklessly endangered human life by firing white phosphorous shells in the direction of the U.N.’s Gaza compound. Israel has consistently defended its use of the highly controversial material, which is designed to create smokescreens, but which also burns human flesh. The U.N. report said that the two high-ranking commanders responsible for the decision had been reprimanded, but Haaretz is reporting that the Israel Defense Forces denies that the men were disciplined. The incident in question took place during the 2008 assault on Gaza known in Israel as Operation Cast Lead. ..."    

Berlusconi eyes Israeli membership in EU [02/02/10] "Italian Prime Minister says Israel should join the European Union, in a u-turn from his earlier remarks criticizing Israel's settlement policy as an impediment to peace."  Note: Israel is not part of Europe, and Berlusconi is a thug. 

Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble [02/02/10] "But many experts find Elad's archaeological claims dubious. Israel Finklestein, an archaeologist from Tel Aviv University says that while there may be ruins on the Elad site dating back to the 9th century B.C., "there's not a single piece of evidence about David's palace. These people are mixing faith with science." Yoni Mizrahi, an independent archaeologist formerly with the IAA, concurs: "You'd think from Elad's guides that they'd excavated a sign saying WELCOME TO DAVID'S PALACE. Their attitude seems to be that if you believe in the Bible, you don't need proof." Raphael Greenberg, lecturer at Tel Aviv University, says Elad ignores key archaeological practices. "You're supposed to dig for six weeks and then report on what you find. ..." Note:  Even the Nazis went around digging, trying to come up with historical evidence to justify their concepts and practices.

Israeli Organ Trafficking and Theft: From Moldova to Palestine [02/02/10] "In August 2009, Sweden’s largest daily newspaper published an article containing grisly evidence suggesting that Israel had been taking Palestinian internal organs. The article, by veteran photojournalist Donald Bostrom, called for an international investigation to discover the facts. ...In her Forum 13 lecture Scheper-Hughes discussed the two motivations of Israeli traffickers. One was greed, she said. The other was somewhat chilling: “Revenge, restitution—reparation for the Holocaust.” She described speaking with Israeli brokers who told her “it’s kind of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. We’re going to get every single kidney and liver and heart that we can. The world owes it to us.’” Scheper-Hughes says that she “even heard doctors saying that.”"   Note: and Haiti

CIA chief holds secret talks with Egypt, Israel [02/01/10] "The Director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, has held secret talks with Egyptian and Israeli officials over expanded US intervention in Yemen. Panetta met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, and intelligence minister, Gen. Omar Suleiman to ask them to dispatch forces to Yemen to help the US troops. ..."  Note: You can bet that something wicked this way comes ....  Related: Yemen clashes continue, ceasefire offer rejected "Yemen rejected a ceasefire offer from Shi'ite rebels on Sunday and said fighting was continuing, as neighbouring Saudi Arabia accused the insurgents of mounting sniper attacks inside its territory. The conflict with the northern rebels, who complain of social, religious and economic discrimination in the southern Arabian state, has rumbled on since 2004, but intensified last year and drew in oil-rich Saudi Arabia. ..."  Yemen offensive rages despite Houthi peace offer   "Yemen said Sunday it killed at least two dozen Houthis after the fighters launched a fourth attempt to make peace with the government. ..."  Note: See the Yemen page link on the Special Articles page for related stories. 

Netanyahu wavering over independent investigation of Cast Lead  [02/01/10] Note: Just DO the independent study, independently of whether he likes it or not.

Proof surfaces that Israel deliberately targeted Gaza civilians [02/01/10] "One of the most important questions raised by the Goldstone Report is whether there was an intentional Israeli objective to destroy Gaza's civilian infrastructure. ..."    

Hamas Leader 'Strangled, Electrocuted' By Israelis In Dubai Hotel [02/01/10] "The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas accused Israel yesterday of assassinating one of its military chiefs in Dubai — a man who helped to found the group’s armed wing and who was behind the kidnapping and killing of two Israeli soldiers in the first intifada 21 years ago. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was a key to the continuing operations to smuggle weapons into the blockaded Gaza Strip, was killed in a hotel in Dubai on January 20, Hamas officials said. He is believed to have been behind the attempted smuggling of truckloads of weapons into Gaza through Sudan last year — a convoy that was blown up by Israeli jets while still in Africa. Hamas officials refused to specify the circumstances of his death until an inquiry had been held, and hinted that the delay in announcing the killing was part of an attempt to capture his assassins. Dubai police said they had begun a manhunt but suspected that the killers had already left the emirate using fake European passports. They said: “The culprits left a trace behind that points to them and will help in chasing and arresting them.” The police promised to work with Interpol to track the killers down.  ..."  Related: Israel's History Of State-Ordered Murders

The Merchants of Fear: Israel's Profiting from Homeland Insecurity [01/31/10] "In the wake of the weird Christmas Day "underwear bomber" incident on Northwest Flight 253, former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, as if on cue, was all over the mainstream media touting whole-body scanners as the answer to America's airline security problems. Since leaving public office in 2009, Chertoff had co-founded the Chertoff Group, a security and risk-management firm whose clients include a manufacturer of body-imaging screening machines. While some in the media noted this rather commonplace conflict of interest, ignored by all was a far more significant abuse of the American public's trust. In a CNN interview, Chertoff cited the Detroit incident as "a very vivid lesson in the value of that machinery." One lesson that he hasn't drawn, however, was about the unreliability of the security firm which allowed the young Nigerian Muslim without a passport to "slip through" Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. ICTS International N.V., the Dutch-based security firm, was established in 1982 by former members of Israel's secret police, the Shin Bet, and El Al security. Menachem Atzmon, who holds the controlling shares in the firm, was convicted in 1996 for campaign finance fraud while co-treasurer of the Likud party. The other co-treasurer Ehud Olmert, who was acquitted of those charges, resigned as Israeli Prime Minister in 2008 amid multiple corruption charges. ..." 

UK's Jewish Chronicle warns Gordon Brown: safeguard Israeli war criminals or else [01/31/10] "Gilad Atzmon comments on an editorial in Britain’s top Zionist newspaper in which the paper’s editor, Stephen Pollard, and its chief political editor, Martin Bright, appeared to be threatening British Prime Minister Gordon Brown with electoral defeat unless he restricts the application of universal jurisdiction to ensure that suspected Israeli war criminals can travel to the UK without risk of prosecution. ”In plain language the Jewish Chronicle is suggesting that Gordon Brown, as far as the Jews are concerned, is basically finished. I wonder how long it will take for the British people to wake up and say enough is enough? How long will it take before they say NO to Israeli and Zionist infiltration of their politics, laws and values?” ..."   

Israel spied on Iran, Syria from secret Turkish base [01/31/10] "Revelations of a secret Israeli spy base, which was allegedly set up in Ankara to gather classified information on Iran and Syria, has dragged Tel Aviv into a new spy scandal. Sources in Turkey's ruling party told Russia's Mignews that Israeli spy agents ran an advanced electronic monitoring station from the Ankara military headquarters to keep tabs on communication networks in Iran and Syria. According to the sources who were speaking on condition of anonymity, the Signals Intelligence station was solely managed by Israeli intelligence personnel and had become off-limits for members of the Turkish government. Israeli military sources have refused to comment on the revelations, which are likely to spark an outcry in Turkey, now that they have been leaked to newspapers and media outlets. This is not the first time Israel finds itself at the centre of a major spy scandal. For years Israeli politicians have masterminded a wave of undercover operations and terror plots in numerous countries, including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Switzerland, and the US. However, much of Israel's espionage operations are focused on the Tehran government, largely because of Iran's uranium enrichment activities, which is seen by Israel as a mortal threat. Israel, which is reported to have an arsenal of 200 nuclear warheads itself, accuses Iran of developing nuclear weapons and routinely threatens to reduce the country's enrichment sites to rubble. This is while Iran, unlike Israel, is a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has opened its enrichment facilities to UN inspection.  ..." 

Palestinian group accuses Israel of assassinating operative [01/30/10] "The Palestinian resistance group and political party Hamas has accused Israel of being behind the killing of one of its senior operatives in Dubai and is vowing revenge. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found murdered in his hotel room on Monday, the apparent victim of deliberate electrocution. The Dubai government claimed that the killing was the work of a "a professional criminal gang that was following the victim before he came to the United Arab Emirates" and that the suspects, who were mostly Euorpean passport holders, had already fled the country. Dubai's police chief told the Al-Arabiya satellite channel that al-Mahbouh was traveling under a pseudonym and "If we had been told of his presence, we would have provided him with the necessary protection." Hamas leaders, however, were quick to blame Israel, which is widely assumed to have been behind other covert attacks on their operatives. The victim was one of the founders of the military wing of Hamas, which has been behind numerous attacks on Israelis since the 1980's. According to al-Mahbouh's brother, there had been previous Israeli assassination attempts against him, including a poisoning which put him in a coma six months ago. At al-Mahbouh's funeral in Syria on Friday, top Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal proclaimed. "I say to you Zionists, do not rejoice. You killed him, but his sons will fight you. God already took our leaders and loved ones, but resistance goes on." ..."  

Commentary: The Pot Calling the Kettle ‘Nazi’ [01/29/10] "So long as Israel believes itself to be blameless, there will NEVER be peace."  

Israeli companies excluded from bank’s investments [01/29/10] "Danske Bank adds two firms to a list of companies in which it won’t invest due to questionable ethics ..."   

CrossTalk on Holocaust: Murder Revenues [01/29/10]   VIDEO [25:47]  "Sixty-five years ago, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops. Peter Lavelle asks his guests what the legacy of the Holocaust is today. Is its memory being abused? Does Israel use Holocaust as a blackmail weapon? Norman Finkelstein and Israel W. Charny discuss the issue in a heated debate. ..."  Note:  Now, this is a half hour fun video.

How many other Holocausts have occurred and why are they not remembered? [01/29/10] "Today is UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but why do we only remember this one event, when so many other holocausts have taken place? Think Armenia, Rwanda, the Congo, Cambodia, Sudan, Iraq, etc. Why such a high-profile focus on this one holocaust, while the many other holocausts never get a mention? ..."  

Danish Companies To Divest From Israel [01/27/10] "The decision came after human rights groups and boycott campaigns declared the wall to be in violation of an advisory ruling made by the Hague International Court. ..."  Note: I like it when sequentials piss off other sequential groups.  Remember the Israeli air crash in 1992 in Denmark that contained components of Sarin nerve gas ....

Israel Uses Depleted Uranium against Palestinians in Gaza [01/27/10] "A London-based Palestinian activist announced that the buildings damaged in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli onslaught last year all showed signs of contamination with depleted uranium. "The ruined buildings and debris left of the Israeli attack on Gaza are contaminated with depleted uranium and similar types of weapons," Sameh Habeeb, spokesperson of the Palestinian Return Center in London, told FNA. The activist quoted international nuclear experts as saying that the contaminated materials will be severely destructive and hazardous to the Palestinian expatriates in the long run. Habeeb criticized the United Nations for its inefficiency in providing the Palestinian people with proper services, saying that the international body has avoided proper measures to clean the contaminated areas. The activist called on the UN to launch a probe into the type of weapons used by the Israeli troops during the 22-day long war on Gaza last year. .. ..."  

Israel Upset over UN Pro-Semitic (referring to the Palestinians) Reports [01/27/10] "Israel warned that any report which didn’t put the blame 100 percent on Hamas was inherently biased and declared that it showed the hypocrisy of the entire planet and a global bias against Israel. The US House of Representatives [Or as I like to refer to it, Knesset West] also condemned the report as “unfair” and called for the president to block its consideration. ..." 

Goldstone found that Israel’s collective punishment policy in Lebanon served as a model for Gaza [01/27/10] "As Israel prepares its response to the Goldstone Report, several articles indicate that its primary objective is to discredit the contention that it carried out, in the words of Ethan Bronner, “an official plan to terrorize the Palestinian population.” Today Haaretz reports that Israel’s response to the UN will seek to “reject most of the fundamental claims of the Goldstone report: it intentionally waged a punitive campaign against a civilian population, including the destruction of infrastructure. ..."  

Israeli Information Minister Slams All Reports on Gaza War as 'Anti-Semitic' [01/27/10] "Just days before Israel is expected to release its own report on the January 2009 invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli Information Minister Yuli Edelstein declared that the UN report on the war, and every other report since the war ended, “are simply a type of anti-Semitism.” ..."  Note: Ho hum ... Related: Israel rules out independent probe of Gaza war  Israel has disdained international calls to conduct an independent probe into the war crimes its forces have been charged with during its 2008 Gaza offensive. Note: Sorry ... anyone can do a probe if they want to. Tough shit. It doesn't matter what Israel thinks.   Israel accuses Turkish PM of anti Semitism "Israel has accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of inciting "anti-Semitism" by making remarks on the war crimes committed against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. ..."  Israel says 2009 "record year for anti-Semitism"  Note: It's a record year for Israel acting like Nazi's too. 

Commentary:  Israel: Please, No More Bin Laden Tapes, Nobody Is Buying It! [01/27/10] "A further abuse, of course, is not only that we are no longer seeing the easily debunked bin Laden doubles whose video tapes were “mysteriously” released by SITE Intelligence, the Rita Katz/Israeli group that seems to find them in trash bins behind delicatessens. The “new” audio tape itself contains statements claiming credit for 9/11 in direct contradiction to the real bin Laden videos, the only ones authenticated. If you wondered why the FBI doesn’t list Osama bin Laden as a suspect in 9/11, I think you have your answer. If they think the bin Laden “admissions” aren’t credibile, I wonder who the FBI is investigating or if they have simply been told to mind their own business. ..."  Related:  Former CIA Official: "Al-Qaeda still aims to use weapons of mass destruction against U.S."  Note: The Washington Post loves to put out this kind of propaganda.

Israel to issue response to Goldstone report [01/26/10] "Israel has prepared a rebuttal to a U.N. report censuring its conduct in the Gaza war, Israeli officials said on Sunday, arguing the United Nations' findings were so unfair as to have fueled a global wave of anti-Semitism. Issued in September by a panel under South African jurist Richard Goldstone, the non-binding report cited evidence Israel had unlawfully targeted Palestinian civilians and gave it six months to investigate -- or risk prosecution in foreign courts. Israel had boycotted the panel and brushed off its findings, calling them biased in favor of Gaza's Hamas rulers. But Israeli officials have voiced worry that the suspicions raised, if unaddressed, could hobble future military operations. ..."  

Europeans say Jews exploit past to extort money [01/25/10] "Nearly half of western Europeans believe jews exploit their 'past persecution' in order to extort money, a new Israeli report says. The report, which the Jewish Agency conducted jointly with Israel's Information and Diaspora Ministry, found that 42 percent of those polled by the University of Bielefeld in Germany agreed that "Jews exploit the past to extort money," Haaretz reported on Monday. The countries in which the highest percentage of the population agreed with that statement were Poland and Spain.  ..."   

Israeli military rule and incarceration procedures [01/24/10] by Alice Rothchild. "Ala Joradat, the program manager of Adameer, a Palestinian human rights organization that focuses primarily on prisoners, legal aid, and monitoring, meets with our delegation and tries to unravel the complex civil and human rights issues that face Palestinians, particularly those who choose to protest the conditions of the Israeli occupation. He explains that the prisoners are both a product of the conflict and a cause for the conflict. Since 1967, 800,000 Palestinians have experienced detention, representing more than 53% of the population over 18. Because mostly Palestinian males are targeted for arrest, 60-70% of adult males have been to prison. To me this feels somewhat parallel to the disproportionately large number of African-American males currently incarcerated in the US. ..."  Note:  Dr. Rothchild, author of “Broken Promises Broken Dreams” , reports from Ramallah, where she was visiting as part of a health and human rights delegation – 17 January 2010

British MPs call for Israel to be held accountable for war crimes [01/24/10] "Calling the devastation in the Gaza Strip clear evidence of war crimes, a group of MPs who just returned from the beleaguered territory called for Israeli officials to be held accountable in a post-trip briefing held in the British House of Commons. The MPs travelled to Gaza in a delegation sponsored by the European Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza. The UK is one of a number of countries where private prosecutions can be brought for alleged war crimes committed abroad. However, following an attempt to obtain an arrest warrant for Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni from a London magistrates' court in December, the UK's Foreign Office announced it is planning to change the legal process so that the attorney general would first have to approve warrants before suspected war criminals could be arrested. ..."  Note: I can see the Mossad pulling false flag attacks on the UK, now, after this.

'Israel seeks more involvement in Afghan war' [01/24/10] "Foreign forces in Afghanistan will use unmanned Israeli drones more extensively in the US-led war, an Israeli paper said, citing the regime's desire to be more involved in the war. The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday that Germany will become the fifth country whose troops in Afghanistan will operate Israeli drones as of next week. The German military is expected to take delivery of an undisclosed number of Israeli made surveillance-geared Heron unmanned drones, the newspaper said. Another Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, wrote in March that Israeli-built drones have been flying in Iraqi and Afghan skies for the last three years. The Afghan government has not commented on the report.  ..."   

U.S. indicts four Israelis in armaments bribery case [01/22/10] "The United States Justice Department indicted 22 businessmen, including four Israelis, on Tuesday in an arms sting. The businessmen are suspected of attempting to bribe a person they thought was the defense minister of an African country in order to secure a multimillion-dollar contract to supply his country with military equipment. ..." 

U.S. Jew indicted as possible Israel spy [01/22/10] "Two attorneys in the counterespionage unit of the U.S. Department's of Justice National Security division, Deborah Curtis and Heather Schmidt, presented documents found on the scientist's computer. One document, titled "Proposed Operations for 2005-2006," referred to the need to carry out "a penetration of NASA," the U.S. space agency. Another document, according to the prosecution, shows Nozette attempted to obtain highly confidential material by using his high-level security clearance and infiltrating other people's computers. ..."  

Peres warns Abbas of third intifada [01/22/10] "Israeli President Shimon Peres warned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that continuing the impasse in negotiations with Israel could lead to a third intifada. He added that "in delaying, Abbas is playing with fire. ..."    

Commentary: Beyond Chutzpah: The Brutal Ugliness of the Israeli Mentality Knows No Limits [01/20/10] "First, the Ayalon affair. Last week, Israeli Deputy-Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called in the Turkish ambassador to reprimand him over a TV program that showed Israeli agents abducting children and shooting old men, an indisputably routine practice by the Israeli occupation army in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A Jewish supremacist, Ayalon seated the Turkish ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol on a chair lower than his own chair, ostensibly to humiliate him and show him “who the master is.” He actually instructed a host of cameramen he had invited to “cover” the event to focus on the “inferiority” of the Turk vis-à-vis himself and the contemptible treatment meted out to the Turkish diplomat. Ayalon is not an amateur diplomat. He has more than 20 years of experience of diplomatic service. He is also a former ambassador to the United States. Hence, the sickening conduct on his part can’t be explained away by citing inexperience. The only explanation for Ayalon’s behavior is that he is suffering from a combination of mental disorder including superiority complex, megalomania, self-inflated ego and self-absorbedness. These are serious morbid psychotic behavior. If untreated, there is a serious risk that next time, Ayalon would physically assault a foreign diplomat. Even a more scandalous feat can be expected. We are talking about insolent people who are mentally sick to the bones. Ayalon is also an irredeemable, pathological liar. He claimed he didn’t really mean it and that he hadn’t preplanned the entire episode. “It would have worked perfectly had it not been for the media which blew it out of proportion,” said the sick thug who was eventually forced to formally apologize to Turkey for his idiotic misdeed. Now, he says that the next time a foreign government criticizes Israel’s genocidal terror against the Palestinian people, Israel would expel the ambassador of that country. In other words, Ayalon believes that Israel, unlike any other country on earth, should be beyond criticism. So, the message is clear. “The next time Israel carries out a genocidal campaign and murders thousands of Palestinian or Lebanese children, no country should dare criticize the Jewish state.” Well, the problem with Ayalon is that he epitomizes the brutal ugliness and cruelty of the overall Israeli mindset. What is more awful is that this morbid mentality is taking over Israel, its army, politicians and general discourse. With this in mind, an Israeli journalist noted a few weeks ago that Israel in its entirety needs to seek treatment at a mental asylum. That asylum must be very huge, indeed, and would have to work 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 30 days per month and 365 days per year. ..."   

"Netanyahu, Hegel And The Jewish Spirit" [01/20/10] By Gilad Atzmon   "Spirit does not toss itself about in the external play of chance occurrences; on the contrary, it is that which determines history absolutely, and it stands firm against the chance occurrences which it dominates and exploits for its own purpose". (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 - 1831) ... PM Netanyahu was quoted by the Israeli Ynet last week saying that the "whole of Israel would be surrounded by a fence eventually". According to another report he said "there will be no choice but to fence Israel in on all directions". What Netanyahu means by 'fence' and 'all directions' may be left open for the time being. However, PM Netanyahu has managed to bring to light an Hegelian interpretation of the notion of 'Jewish spirit' as a relentless inclination towards segregation and isolation. It is the tendency to keep oneself apart that determines and shapes Jewish collectivism. Whether it is the Zionists and their walls, the Orthodox and their Kosher universe or even Jewish anti Zionists and their racially segregated miniature activist cells, somehow every form of Jewish political engagement is there to set the Jews apart ...."  Note: Interesting piece.

 Iran:  By way of Deception: Assassinations Occur [01/20/10] "This one came out early last week and I first heard about it on the radio. It is something we should have highlighted in a more timely fashion but it is still making news this week. So we will fill in the blanks and reference some current articles. Last week, Dr. Masoud Alimohammadi, a 50-year-old Tehran University professor of Physics, with a focus on nuclear physics, was assassinated when a bomb exploded at his home. Dr. Masoud Alimohammadi died when a remotely detonated bomb, strapped to a motorcycle outside his home, exploded. You should note that Dr. Masoud Alimohammadi was probably your typical professor and did not have much exposure, socially or professionally, outside of his little academic world at the university in Tehran. According to the below NPR article, Dr. Masoud Alimohammadi “had no prominent political voice, no published work with military relevance and no declared links to Iran’s nuclear program, though his work included some aspects of nuclear theory.” So why was Dr. Masoud Alimohammadi assassinated? Well, because “his work included some aspects of nuclear theory.” So who would assassinate a nuclear physicist that had no political agenda or relevance on a military stage? Who do you think? This smells like a classic, signature, Mossad operation and the Israeli fingerprint is all over it. This is the Mossadi modus operandi and there is really no logical objection to that. It is certainly the first thing I thought about and I am not the only one. Immediately, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the assassination was the result of “Zionist” methods. If you do just a little research on historic Mossad assassination you should come to the same conclusion. ..."    Related: Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran blast   "An Iranian nuclear physics scientist and "a staunch supporter" of the Islamic revolution has been killed in a blast near his home in northern Tehran, Iranian and regional media reported on Tuesday. ..."  Note: Something tells me this is a "wet job" hit by the Mossad or CIA ...  "Assassination 'proof' of Iran scientific progress"   "Mohammad Marandi, a professor at Tehran University, told Press TV that Ali-Mohammadi's colleagues at the capital's most prestigious university believe the attack was orchestrated by the West. "It is widely believed among collogues that he was assassinated by terrorist organizations probably supported by the United States and with connections with the Americans and the Israelis under different names," he said.  ..."    

Commentary:  Israel and American Foreign Policy [01/20/10] "Israel is not an important trading partner for the United States, in 20th place, behind Venezuela and Thailand. Israel has no significant natural resources, nor is Israel an important defense ally. None of its neighbors pose any significant threat to the United States or American interests. There is not an important Israeli American population. If we equate American Jews as somehow "Israeli" because of the fact that Israel is a Jewish state, than we are still only talking about a population of 6,444,000 approx. (2007) 1.7% - 2.2% of the US population. This is less than the number of Polish Americans, approximately 10,000,000 people and well below the number of Irish Americans, over 30,000,000. ..."   

Israel to station German nuclear submarine in Persian Gulf [01/19/10] "Ahead of an Israeli-German cabinet meeting in Berlin, median reports indicate that Israel intends to station one of its German-made Dolphin submarines in the waters of the Persian Gulf. “Israel’s use of the dolphin submarine in exercises in the red sea aroused fears that Israel may seek to maintain a continued presence in the Persian Gulf as soon as it receives its submarines form Germany in 2011-2012,” the tagesspiegel said on Sunday. ..."   

Gaza flooded after Israel opens dam gates [01/19/10] "Israel has opened the floodgates of one of its dams in the eastern part of the Gaza Strip, flooding Palestinian houses and causing severe damage. ..."  

Israeli attack on Iran could be disaster — for U.S. economy [01/19/10] "Israel will not be complicit in a second Holocaust. If Iran or any other nation that has called for the destruction of Israel is about to acquire nuclear weapons, the Israelis will attempt to destroy that nation's uranium-enrichment facilities. In June 1981, Israel launched a successful air attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, and in 2007 it bombed a Syrian factory suspected of producing plutonium warheads. But Americans should be aware that when Iran becomes the next target, it will be a blow to the U.S. economic recovery. ..."   

The Wages of Fear in Israel and the US [01/19/10] "Keep in mind that fear, wherever directed, is a remarkably profitable emotion to exploit. Just think of those controversial full-body-scan machines now being installed in airports at a cost of up to $170,000 each. One promoter of them is former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff, "who now heads the Chertoff Group, which represents one of the leading manufacturers of whole-body-imaging machines, Rapiscan Systems." He’s part of a growing "full-body-scanner lobby" of ex-Washington politicos just made for our moment. ..."   

Israeli New War on Gaza: Day 23 [01/18/10] "Thousands of people appeared on the Gaza streets. Everybody is trying to explore what has happened to his relatives, houses and areas. I have documented a massive devastation throughout east, north and west of Gaza Strip. The devastation storms everything needed for normal life. Houses, schools, hospitals, clinics, police stations, charities, universities and streets totally and partially destroyed. ..." 

Israeli Prohibitions Against Free Expression and "Enemy Alien" Contacts [01/17/10] "Adalah is the legal center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel advocating on their behalf in a nation affording rights only to Jews. In September 2009, its report titled "Prohibited Protest" exposed how Israel's law enforcement authorities restricted free expression protests against Operation Cast Lead. It shows how police, the State Prosecutor's Office, General Security Services (GSS or Shabak), the courts, and even academic institutions used or supported arrests and imprisonments to stop Israeli Arabs and supportive Jews from protesting against the war. ..."  Note: Think Cass Sunstein, on the US Supreme Court.

Israel threatens to expel Turkish ambassador [01/17/10] "Tel Aviv, which is at odds with Ankara, has threatened to expel the Turkish ambassador, should Turkish dramas depicting Israeli brutality continue. ..."  

Keeping "The Master Race" White in Israel [01/17/10] "Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies. ..." 

British Labour Party legislator: "Israel Should be Tried for War Crimes" [01/17/10] "Israelis who authorized the use of white phosphorous in densely populated Gaza should be tried for war crimes, a British Labour Party legislator said Friday, after entering the Hamas-ruled territory with 60 European parliamentarians. ..." 

Wolf Blitzer: From AIPAC Lobbyist to CNN's Chief News Anchor [01/17/10] VIDEO [9:58]  "Rabbinical Rabbis Explain that Zionism is Antithetical to Judaism ..." 

Turkey And Israel: The End Of A Love Affair [01/16/10] "The tense stand-off between Israel and its closest Muslim ally, Turkey, began to subside Thursday following Turkey’s acceptance of Israel’s second, stronger apology for its treatment of Ankara’s ambassador to Jerusalem. But the incident revealed a fundamental shift in the leadership and regional standing of the two countries that is likely to affect relations going forward. ..."  Related: Israelis Furious Over Humiliating Gov’t Handling Of Row With Turkey  "The Israeli media on Thursday slammed the government's handling of a diplomatic row with Turkey in which it humiliated Ankara's ambassador and then retreated with public apologies. "The policy of 'no more groveling' led by Foreign Minister (Avigdor) Lieberman, was transformed within a matter of days into a situation in which Israel was forced to dispatch an official and diplomatic apology," Israel's Maariv newspaper said in an article entitled "Capitulation." The spat again turned the spotlight on the controversial minister, an ultra-nationalist who has said Israel should strike back at international criticism and defend its "national honor." ..."   

Israel Gearing Up For Another July War With Lebanon [01/14/10] "“We know Hezbollah is growing stronger with Syria's help, and occasionally with Iran's assistance,” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said during a tour of the northern border on Tuesday. "Should the (security) situation deteriorate, we'll hold the Lebanese government and all those who help Hezbollah responsible," said Barak at an Israeli occupation army outpost overlooking south Lebanon's villages. ..."  

Israel tries to block military aid to Lebanon [01/14/10] " Israel has launched a diplomatic campaign aimed at countries providing military assistance to Lebanon, warning that any weapons or equipment given to Beirut will end up in Hizbullah’s hands, according to Israeli media. The Jerusalem Post, citing Israeli government sources, reported on Monday that Tel Aviv is calling on the international community to rethink supporting the Lebanese Army. ..."   

Israeli negotiators visit Cairo [01/13/10] "Top Israeli negotiators went to Cairo on Monday to urge Egypt into using its significant influence on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to get him back to the negotiating table. The Israeli team of negotiators was made up of Israeli National Security Council head Uzi Arad, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's envoy on the Palestinian issue Yitzhak Molcho, and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's chief of staff Michael Herzog. The trip came just two days before a scheduled meeting of the Quartet - the US, EU, UN and Russia - in Brussels, a meeting which Israeli wishes will conclude with a call for an immediate return to negotiations. ..."  

Israel criticizes Turkish TV series [01/13/10] "Israel criticized Turkey Monday for a Turkish television series that presented Israeli intelligence agents as baby-snatchers, heightening tensions between the two countries. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called a meeting with the Turkish ambassador to Israel to complain about the television show that Israel found "offensive", a spokesman for Ayalon said. ..."   

US to store $800m in military gear in Israel [01/12/10] "The U.S. Army will double the value of emergency military equipment it stockpiles on Israeli soil, and Israel will be allowed to use the U.S. ordnance in the event of a military emergency, according to a report in Monday’s issue of the U.S. weekly Defense News.This is the final phase of a process that began over a year ago to determine the type and amount of U.S. weapons and ammunition to be stored in Israel, part of an overarching American effort to stockpile weapons in areas in which its army may need to operate while allowing American allies to make use of the ordnance in emergencies. .... The deal allows Israel access to a wider spectrum of military ordnance, and the U.S. official said his government was considering which forms of military supplies would be added to stores in Israel. Missiles, armored vehicles, aerial ammunition and artillery ordnance are already stockpiled in the country. The agreement is expected to aid Israel in its effort to bolster its weapons stockpiles for use in an emergency. Israel’s stores of aerial and artillery ammunition were depleted during the Second Lebanon War in 2006, nearly reaching levels the IDF considers dangerously low."  

Israelis reject George Mitchell loan guarantee 'threat'  [01/12/10] "Israeli officials have shrugged off a suggestion that the US could withhold loan guarantees to pressure Israel over the Middle East peace process. The finance minister said Israel did not need the guarantees, while the prime minister accused the Palestinians of holding up peace negotiations. US envoy George Mitchell said this week the US could withhold loan guarantees to extract concessions from Israel. The guarantees allow Israel to raise money cheaply overseas. 'Doing fine' Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz reacted by saying the Israeli economy was doing well. ..."We don't need to use these guarantees," he was quoted by Israeli media as saying. "We are doing just fine. But several months ago we agreed with the American treasury on guarantees for 2010 and 2011, and there were no conditions." "  Note: So what the US administration proposes is not relevent to reality until Jan 2012 .... so why bother having Mitchell say this at all? Because they're so stupid, they don't realize people will realize it's a bluff?

Israel rejects US hint about possible sanctions [01/11/10] "Israel was outraged Sunday after Obama administration's special envoy to the Mideast suggested the U.S. might impose sanctions on Israel to press it to make concessions in peace talks with the Palestinians. According to the AP, envoy George Mitchell was asked in a television interview last week what sort of pressure could be applied to Israel. "Under American law, the United States can withhold support on loan guarantees to Israel," Mitchell told PBS interviewer Charlie Rose, noting that the previous Bush administration had done so in the past. On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office issued a statement in response to Mitchell's remarks, blaming the Palestinians for the failure to resume negotiations. "Everyone realizes that the Palestinian Authority refuses to renew peace talks, while Israel took significant steps to advance the process," the statement said.  ..."   

Mossad Tied to ‘Underwear Bomber’ [01/11/10] "“His explosives couldn’t have blown up his own seat. Even if full power, it wouldn’t have worked.” These were the words relayed to me during a Jan. 2 interview with military analyst and counterinsurgency specialist Gordon Duff in regard to the attempt of Christmas Day underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab [sometimes referred to as Abdulmutallab] to ignite 80 grams of the explosive PETN on a flight destined for America. He also explained how the patsy’s country of origin, Nigeria, is clandestinely controlled by the Israeli army and Mossad. These entities train the military, sell weapons, run the airports, and wield power over DICON (Defense Industries Corporation). Furthermore, Mutallab’s father is a Mossad partner and Israel’s No. 1 contact in Nigeria. As the former CEO of his country’s most influential bank and the man who ran their national arms industry, Mr. Mutallab also harbors extremely close relationships with the U.S. ambassador and CIA chief in Nigeria." .... On Nov. 19, 2009, Mutallab supposedly felt so alarmed about his errant son’s behavior that he met with the CIA’s station chief in Nigeria. Duff describes the father in a Dec. 31 article for Veterans Today as “one of the richest people in the world, head of a major bank, head of the national armaments industry, and close associate of the U.S. ambassador,” as well as being a Mossad asset. Yet we’re to believe that nobody prevented his Yemeni-influenced “terrorist” son from boarding a plane ultimately bound for Detroit? ....... Note: More pieces of the puzzle. 

Israel readying new arms to meet Iran challenge [01/11/10] "With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against distant Iran as well as Tehran's proxy armies on its borders. ...A system that can unleash a metallic cloud to shoot down incoming rockets in the skies over Gaza or Lebanon has already been successfully tested, according to its maker, and is expected to be deployed next year. The army is developing a new generation of its Arrow defense system designed to shoot down Iran's long-range Shihab missiles outside the Earth's atmosphere. It has three German-made Dolphin submarines and is buying two more. They can be equipped with nuclear-tipped missiles which analysts say could be stationed off the coast of Iran. Israel says Iran, despite its denials, is trying to acquire atomic weapons. It has never confirmed its Dolphin fleet has nuclear capabilities, but senior officials acknowledge that commanders are fast at work devising a strike plan in case diplomacy fails."  Note: This is a reprint of a November 2009 article, just to reiterate the larger agenda and relate it to the 'weapons testing' in Gaza last year.

Israel Admits Harvesting Organs From Dead Bodies Without Permission [01/11/10] "Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families. ..."  Note: What a bunch of psychopathic freaks!  If they could harvest 'souls', they would.

MSM: Israeli firm 'failed to detect would-be bomber' [01/11/10] "An Israeli security firm has come under fire for failing to detect Nigerian bomb suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab despite separate US intelligence failures, an Israeli paper reported on Sunday. The Israeli-owned ICTS company did not identify the 23-year-old charged in connection with the failed Christmas Day bombing as a flight risk despite several warning signs, the Haaretz newspaper said. "Even if US intelligence failed and the name of the Nigerian passenger was not pinpointed as a suspect for the airline, he should have stirred the suspicion of the security officers," the newspaper said. "His age, name, illogical travel route, high-priced ticket purchased at the last minute, his boarding without luggage (only a carry-on) and many other signs should have been sufficient to alert the security officers and warrant further examination of the suspect." The Netherlands-based firm provides security services in airports in 11 countries, including France, Britain, Spain, Hungary, Romania and Russia, the newspaper reported. It was established in 1982 by former agents of Israel's internal Shin Bet security service and former El Al airline security agents, the paper added. ..."  Note:  I am glad this story finally made its way into the mainstream media, where it belongs. Related: Israel: Israeli firm blasted for letting would-be plane bomber slip through

Israel to build fence on border with Egypt [01/11/10] "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ordered the construction of a fence along two segments of Israel's border with Egypt "to stem the infiltration of migrant workers and terrorists into Israel," the Haaretz newspaper said. ..."    

Israel: "Blatantly Anti-Semitic Exchange on C-Span" [01/09/10] "A caller on a C-Span interview program Monday complained about "all these Jews" having "way too much power" in America and pushing the U.S. into wars with the Muslim world. He found his comments echoed and expanded upon by the studio guest.  ...Michael Scheuer, the former director of a CIA unit assigned to track down Osama Bin-Laden, calmly expressed the view that American soldiers are now dying in Iraq for the sake of Israelis. He further claimed that any debate of American support for Israel is squelched in the public sphere. The interviewer for C-Span's Washington Journal program did not react to the blatantly anti-Semitic exchange. Several other callers praised Scheuer for his position regarding Israel, adding their own condemnation of the Jewish State and its supporters. "   Related: Israeli Minister: "Calling people Anti-Semitic - It's a Trick - We Always Use It"   VIDEO [2:23]  Note: Right from the horses mouth, it's a manipulative scam.

All  Of Gaza Under Attack Again by Israel [01/09/10] "A massive explosion took place few moments ago western Gaza City, in Tal Al Hawa neighborhood. Eyewitness reported that Israeli F16s launched an Arial attack midnight. The attack was followed by a series of air raids. Palestine Telegraph reported that a number of air raids took place northern Gaza Strip while no new reported about the attacks yet. The attacks also targeted the southern and middle areas of Gaza Strip. ..."   

Rahm Emanuel: U.S. is fed up with Israel, Palestinians [01/08/10] "The White House had rejected claims that Barack Obama's most senior aide blasted Israel and the Palestinians for foot-dragging and warned that the U.S. could walk away from the Middle East peace process. The comments come after reports that Rahm Emanuel recently told an Israeli diplomat that the U.S. is fed up with both sides, and said that Washington would reduce its involvement in peace efforts if no significant progress was made.  ...According to reports, Emanuel told Dayan the U.S. is sick of the Israelis, who adopt suitable ideas months too late, when they are no longer effective. The U.S. is also sick of the Palestinians who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, Emanuel reportedly said. Emanuel added that if there is no progress in the peace process, the Obama administration will reduce its involvement in the conflict, because, as he reportedly said, the U.S. has other matters to deal with.... "    

Death threats ups security for Israeli minister [01/08/10] "Jewish extremists angry over limits on West Bank construction have threatened to kill the defense minister, prompting the government to beef up security around him, officials said Wednesday. They said the internal security service, or Shin Bet, was investigating the threats and that Ehud Barak's security has been reinforced in recent weeks. ..."  Note: Shin Bet is quite busy inside the Israeli airport security companies at more than 65 major airports, too.

Commentary:  UK 'Attorney Gene